Express Train of Love

{{short description|1925 film}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2020}} {{Infobox film | name = Express Train of Love | image = Blitzzug der Liebe (poster by Bilinsky).jpg | caption = Poster by Boris Bilinsky | director = [[Johannes Guter]] | producer = [[Erich Pommer]] | writer = [[Karl Hans Strobl]] (novella) [[Robert Liebmann]] | starring = [[Ossi Oswalda]] [[Willy Fritsch]] [[Lillian Hall-Davis]] [[Nigel Barrie]] | music = | editing = | cinematography = [[Carl Hoffmann]] | studio = [[Universum Film AG|UFA]] | distributor = [[Universum Film AG|UFA]] | released = {{Film date|1925|05|06|df=yes}} | runtime = | country = Germany | language = Silent German [[intertitles]] | budget = | gross = }} '''''Express Train of Love''''' (German:'''''Blitzzug der Liebe''''') is a 1925 [[Cinema of Germany|German]] [[silent film|silent]] [[comedy film]] directed by [[Johannes Guter]] and starring [[Ossi Oswalda]], [[Willy Fritsch]] and [[Lillian Hall-Davis]]. It premiered on 6 May 1925 at the [[Ufa-Palast am Zoo]] in [[Berlin]].<ref>Hardt p.232</ref>

The film's [[art direction]] was by [[Rudi Feld]].

==Cast== * [[Ossi Oswalda]] as Kitty * [[Willy Fritsch]] as Charley * [[Lillian Hall-Davis]] as Lissi * [[Nigel Barrie]] as Fred * [[Jenny Jugo]] as Sportslady * [[Ernst Hofmann]] as Redakteur * [[Josefine Dora]] * [[Karl Platen]] * [[Werner Westerholt]] * [[Henry Bender]] * [[Georg John]] * [[Hans Junkermann (actor)|Hans Junkermann]] * [[Hans Oberländer]] * [[Philipp Manning]]

==References== {{Reflist}}

==Bibliography== * Hardt, Ursula. ''From Caligari to California: Erich Pommer's life in the International Film Wars''. Berghahn Books, 1996. * Kreimeier, Klaus. ''The Ufa Story: A History of Germany's Greatest Film Company, 1918-1945''. University of California Press, 1999.

==External links== *{{IMDb title|0437873}}

[[Category:1925 films]] [[Category:1925 comedy films]] [[Category:Films of the Weimar Republic]] [[Category:German silent feature films]] [[Category:Films directed by Johannes Guter]] [[Category:Films based on short fiction]] [[Category:Films based on works by Karl Hans Strobl]] [[Category:Films produced by Erich Pommer]] [[Category:German black-and-white films]] [[Category:German silent comedy films]] [[Category:1925 German films]] [[Category:1925 German-language films]] [[Category:German-language comedy films]]