‘Peking Express’: An Early Warning of Chinese Communism

 A train hurtles toward destruction as its passengers try to save themelves.
‘Peking Express’: An Early Warning of Chinese Communism
(L–R) Mr. Kwon (Marvin Miller), Michael Bachlin (Joseph Cotton), and Mr. Wong (Benson Fong) on a train headed for destruction, in “Peking Express.” Paramount Pictures
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NR | 1h 35m | Drama | 1951

“Peking Express” is at once a critique of Chinese communism and an insistent, if idealistic, call for change. What’s the point of a People’s Republic, it asks, if that republic habitually suppresses its people?

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Rudolph Lambert Fernandez
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Rudolph Lambert Fernandez is an independent writer who writes on pop culture.