form y separately published work icon The Lost Express single work   film/TV   thriller   crime   mystery  
Note: Co-written with actor and sometime script-writer Frederick Bennett.
Issue Details: First known date: 1917... 1917 The Lost Express
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A telegraph operator solves the mystery of a missing express train, which is carrying a valuable cargo of a new formula for granulated gasoline.

Notes

  • McGowan and Holmes were later to produce another film called The Lost Express (1926), also a crime melodrama, but with an entirely different plot, involving marital discord and kidnapping. The script-writer for the 1926 film has not been identified.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

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      United States of America (USA),
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      Americas,
      :
      Signal Films ,
      1917 .
      Description: Black-and-white; silent
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