“From the original negative – picture and sound – keept in the archives of Cineteca Nazionale, this odd experiment of dramatic action cinema springs again to life; it was made – in the full blown period of comedy and white telephones – with scanty means, but with encompassing originality and expressive ambitions by an “unusual” filmmaker, D’Errico. The splendid black and white photography by Montuori and Pupill should be remarked”.

Mario Musumeci

Several criminals get on the train Freccia d’Oro to rob the wealthy passengers of their jewels. When they are already in the safe cart the news come that a bridge has collapsed. The presence of the criminals makes it impossible for the passengers – already informed of the disaster through the radio – to reach the engineer and tell him to stop the train. Just before the bridge, he will stop the train anyway, saving the passengers and having the thieves arrested: in the darkness of night he had seen a great lit-up cross. It was an optical phenomenon, a crucifix, a gift from his mother, had ended up between the lights of the train. However, the event is still miraculous…

“Corrado D’Errico and Piero Ballerini directed this film with sure hands, looking for a truly cinematic style; if Freccia d’Oro has some faults (the tale is too often broken up, uselessly rich in details), it also has a great quality, it is nothing else but cinema, pure cinema. From the beginning to the end, this film uses words as something necessary to complement action, and not to narrate it, and the context is set up step by step with an evident pleasure for the spectator […]

What satisfies less in this film is its acting, although the actors are not totally devoid of talent, but none of them is capable of making their mark”.

Guglielmina Setti, Il Lavoro, 24/3/1936