About Middle-Class Train
- Released on November 01, 1933
His 1933 debut, following some years as a journalist and then script boy, was Treno popolare, an early sound lark about several Roman petit bourgeois on a day trip to the country that was influenced by the German proto-neorealist silent picture People on Sunday (1930). Produced at the height of the fascist era, Treno popolare was nonetheless free of propaganda, and featured the first film score by the legendary composer Nino Rota.
Full Cast of Middle-Class Train
Marcello Spada
plays Giovanni
Carlo Petrangeli
plays Carlo
Jone Frigerio
plays The Jealous Wife
Cesare Zoppetti
plays The Gallant Man
Giuseppe Pierozzi
plays The Abusive Traveler
Gino Viotti
plays The Old Man with Bow Tie
Aldo Frosi
plays A Traveler (uncredited)
Raffaello Matarazzo
plays The Director of the Band (uncredited)
Giuseppe Ricagno
plays A Traveler (uncredited)
Umberto Sacripante
plays A Traveler (uncredited)
Italo Tancredi
plays A Traveler (uncredited)
Crew of Middle-Class Train
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