The Silent Battle (1939 film)

1939 British film

The Silent Battle
UK pressbook cover
Directed by	Herbert Mason
Written by	Wolfgang Wilhelm Rodney Ackland Emeric Pressburger (uncredited)
Based on	the novel "Le Poisson Chinois" by Jean Bommart
Produced by	Anthony Havelock-Allan
Starring	Rex Harrison Valerie Hobson John Loder
Cinematography	Bernard Browne
Edited by	Philip Charlot
Music by	Francis Chagrin
Production company	Pinebrook Studios
Distributed by	Paramount British Pictures (UK)
Release dates	March 1939 (1939-03) (UK) 1 March 1942 (1942-03-01) (U.S.)
Running time	73 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

The Silent Battle is a 1939 British thriller film directed by Herbert Mason and produced by Anthony Havelock-Allan for Pinebrook Studios. The cast includes Rex Harrison, Valerie Hobson and John Loder. It marked the film debut of Megs Jenkins. It is also known by the alternative titles Continental Express and Peace in our Time. It was inspired by the novel Le Poisson Chinois by Jean Bommart. Secret agents try to defeat terrorists on the Orient Express. The film was distributed by Paramount British Pictures.

It is a remake of the French film The Silent Battle (1937).

The Silent Battle was released to cinemas in the United Kingdom in March 1939.

Cast

Rex Harrison as Jacques Sauvin
Valerie Hobson as Draguisha
John Loder as Bordier
Muriel Aked as Madame Duvivier
George Devine as Sonneman
John Salew as Ernest
Kaye Seeley as Bostoff
Carl Jaffe as Rykoff
Megs Jenkins as Louise
Arthur Maude as Editor

Critical reception

TV Guide wrote, "competent prewar spy drama with a fairly talented cast, but it doesn't pack the action or suspense of the great espionage drama Night Train to Munich (1940), also starring Harrison."

External links

References

"The Silent Battle". British Film Institute. Archived from the original on 14 January 2009.
Tom Vallance (11 October 1998). "Obituary: Megs Jenkins". independent.co.uk. The Independent. She entered films with a small role in Herbert Mason's exciting thriller set on the Orient Express, The Silent Battle (1939), the first of over 50 films in which she was featured
"Continental Express". TV Guide.

v t e Films by Herbert Mason
Directed	The First Offence (1936) His Lordship (1936) East Meets West (1936) Take My Tip (1937) Strange Boarders (1938) The Silent Battle (1939) A Window in London (1940) Dr. O'Dowd (1940) The Briggs Family (1940) Mr. Proudfoot Shows a Light (1941) Fingers (1941) Once a Crook (1941) Back-Room Boy (1942) The Night Invader (1943) It's in the Bag (1944) Flight from Folly (1945)
Produced only	Anna Karenina (1948) Time Gentlemen, Please! (1952) Background (1953) Conflict of Wings (1954) Child's Play (1954) Cast a Dark Shadow (1955) John and Julie (1955) The Blue Peter (1955)

Films by Herbert Mason

Directed

The First Offence (1936)
His Lordship (1936)
East Meets West (1936)
Take My Tip (1937)
Strange Boarders (1938)
The Silent Battle (1939)
A Window in London (1940)
Dr. O'Dowd (1940)
The Briggs Family (1940)
Mr. Proudfoot Shows a Light (1941)
Fingers (1941)
Once a Crook (1941)
Back-Room Boy (1942)
The Night Invader (1943)
It's in the Bag (1944)
Flight from Folly (1945)

Produced only

Anna Karenina (1948)
Time Gentlemen, Please! (1952)
Background (1953)
Conflict of Wings (1954)
Child's Play (1954)
Cast a Dark Shadow (1955)
John and Julie (1955)
The Blue Peter (1955)

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