Victor McLaglen
Maurice "Mike" Monohan
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Synopsis
A film director arranges a publicity stunt for an actress travelling aboard a prestigious passenger train. An unexpected baby makes the scheme look less like promotion and more like a kidnapping. The actress, a railway engineer and their fellow travellers are caught in the escalating confusion as the train carries the story toward its next complication.
Cast
DirectorsGordon Douglas
Historical context
The title refers to the Pennsylvania Railroad's celebrated New York–Chicago service. The train provides both the setting and the mechanism for a comedy about manufactured celebrity news escaping the control of the people who invented it.
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Work catalogued as public domain in the United States.
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Availability checked on September 10, 2026.
Photograph credit
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- Victor McLaglen — Los Angeles Times · CC BY 4.0
- Dennis O'Keefe — Studio Publicity · Public domain
- ZaSu Pitts — Picture-Play Magazine · Public domain
- Marjorie Woodworth — film screenshot (Hal Roach Studios Inc.) · Public domain
