Cruel Train
1995
99 min
movie
4.9/ 10
Overview
Based on Émile Zola's La Bête Humaine, this stylish film noir is set in Britain during the Blitz. Ruben Roberts discovers he owes everything - job and home - to the sexual favors forced upon his wife by her rich and powerful godfather. Assisted by his wife, Ruben murders him on the Brighton Express. A witness has to be silenced...