Entertaining Shayne adventure has the PI escort a witness (Mary Beth Hughes) across country. Lynn Bari is always fun in this sort of thing and so she is here, playing a female journo who figures out something is up with Shayne – so does her fiancée, who is a baddie.
Shayne doesn’t do a super amount in this film – he turns down a bribe and banters with Bari but more time is devoted to subplots, especially Hughes’ romance with a fellow drunk passenger (I saw this as a teenager and always remembered the subplot about the two passengers who found love getting drunk together on the train, one of whom has a big forehead). This might be because it was based on a non-Shayne novel adapted for Shayne (a not uncommon practice at the time) he characters hop off the train towards the end, and the film loses pace as a result. (A thought - There are no more train films. I guess its harder to make without back projection and people taking lots of trains.)
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