Desc: The Midnight Express: Directed by George W. Hill. With Elaine Hammerstein, William Haines, George Nichols, Lloyd Whitlock. Jack Oakes, the playboy son of a railroad president, is disowned by his father, and takes a job in the railroads yards under an assumed name. Mary Traves still believes he has the right stuff, and he soon gets a chance to show it when The Midnight Expess is on a collision course with a run-away freight train.