Express Train from Andalucía (Andalusian Express)-1956 - Spanish with English Subtitles

This is a tidily paced crime film that connects three distinctly drawn characters with different motivations for participating in a jewelry heist on a train headed to Seville. The unholy trinity comprises sensitive college student Miguel Hernández, street vendor El Rubio who is first to learn the stolen jewels are on board, and former jai alai player Jorge Andrade, a risk-taking ladies’ man who ends up killing one of the train operators and seducing the mistress (Mara Berni) of the intended fence, antiques dealer Salinas. Marisa de Leza plays Lola, the sweet girl in love with Andrade, who will come to appreciate her too late. When not taking place aboard a train, the action unfolds across the city of Madrid, Rovira Beleta using rail yards, ditches, markets, and bridges to depict the very slow industrialization of Franco-clenched Spain. The film is rich with high-tension, high-gloss scenes, such as the theft and deaths on board the Express, Silvia’s break-in to Salinas’s safe, and the gorgeous closing sequence featuring a shootout and its aftermath in a dark, Spanish alley.