Pleasure Train (film)

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Pleasure Train
Directed by Luciano Doria
Written by Maurice Hennequin (play)
Produced by Stefano Pittaluga
Starring Oreste Bilancia
Pauline Polaire
Cinematography Anchise Brizzi
Production
company
Distributed byFert Film
Release date
  • November 1924 (1924-11)
CountryItaly
LanguagesSilent
Italian intertitles

Pleasure Train (Italian: Treno di piacere) is a 1924 Italian silent film directed by Luciano Doria and starring Oreste Bilancia and Pauline Polaire. The film was shot by the Turin-based Fert Film company. It still exists in archives. [1]

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  1. Reich p.276

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