Yet another variation on GRAND HOTEL, UNION DEPOT actually beat the MGM blockbuster into the theaters by a few months. Critics of the day were quick to notice the similarity between this picture and the Vicki Baum play and novel that served as the basis for GRAND HOTEL. This time the
location is a bustling train station, alive with scurrying passengers, vacationing couples, new immigrants, and low-life vagabonds. Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., stars as a disheveled young tramp who wanders the roads and rails with his good friend, Guy Kibbee. Fairbanks finds a forgotten bag full of
cash and a new suit of clothes in the station's washroom, and transforms himself into a resp...
Released:
1932
Rated:
NR
Length:
75 mins