The 9.15 Express

{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2021}} {{Short description|1941 film}} {{Infobox film | name = The 9.15 Express | image = | caption = | director = Alejandro Galindo | producer = Salvador Elizondo | writer = {{interlanguage link|Marco Aurelio Galindo|es}}<br>Alejandro Galindo | starring = Virginia Fábregas<br>Alfredo del Diestro<br>Gloria Marín | music = Raúl Lavista | cinematography = Gabriel Figueroa | editing =Emilio Gómez Muriel | studio = Clasa Films | distributor = Grovas | released = {{Film date|1941|09|11|df=y}} | runtime = 90 minutes | country = Mexico | language = Spanish | budget = }} '''''The 9.15 Express''''' (Spanish: '''''El rápido de las 9.15''''') is a 1941 Mexican drama film directed by Alejandro Galindo and starring Virginia Fábregas, Alfredo del Diestro and Gloria Marín.<ref>{{cite web|title=El rápido de las 9.15 (1941)|url=http://www.filmaffinity.com/es/film492528.html|publisher=Film Affinity|accessdate=13 June 2014}}</ref><ref>Castro p.152</ref> It was shot at the Clasa Studios in Mexico City. The film's sets were designed by the art director Jorge Fernández.

==Synopsis== The film focuses on the differing, unconnected lives of various passengers on an express train that crashes that night.

==Cast== *Virginia Fábregas as Susana del Mercado * Alfredo del Diestro as El Incurable * Gloria Marín as La Infiel * Miguel Inclán as El Anticuario * Carlos López Moctezuma as El Chulo * Alejandro Cobo as El Tuerte * Enrique García Álvarez as El Marino * Edmundo Espino as Nacho * Carmen Conde as La Novia * Rafael Baledón as El Novio * Lucila Bowling as Alberta * Ángel T. Sala as Tío de Rodolfo * Lupe Inclán as Esposa de Ulíses * José Torvay as Secuaz de gobernador * Manuel Dondé as Don Rodrigo * Conchita Gentil Arcos as Toñita, casera * Tito Junco as Rodolfo * José Elías Moreno as Empleado hotel * Humberto Rodríguez as Felipe, mayordomo * Salvador Quiroz as Don Ramón, Padrino de boda * Arturo Soto Rangel as Papá de novia

==See also== * ''Friday the Thirteenth'', a 1933 British film with a similar plotline

==References== {{Reflist}}

==Bibliography== * Castro, Francisco Peredo. ''Alejandro Galindo, un alma rebelde en el cine mexicano''. Conaculta/imcine, 2000.

==External links== *{{IMDb title|0034137|The 9.15 Express}}

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