sentences:  "Peking Express", a remake of Paramount's "Shanghai Express" credited Harry Hervey for his story and adaptor Jules Furthman on both films.A pre-production news release December 25, 1950 states that the film was also based on screenwriter John Lucas' "original story".An April 1951 item in "The New York Times" claimed "Peking Express" was the first Hollywood film, "laid in Communist China."