By Whose Hand?
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- Crime
- Mystery
Overview
On the night express train from Los Angeles to San Francisco everyone’s a suspect when a jewelry magnate is found stabbed to death and an escaped killer is feared on board. It’s up to newspaper reporter Jimmy Hawley (Ben Lyon) to unravel the secrets of the motley group of passengers and find the killer before he strikes again in this tense and atmospheric whodunit.
Keywords
- california
- revenge
- prison escape
- murder
- fugitive
- san francisco
- robbery
- deception
- 1930s
- train
- widow
- criminal
- police detective
- held at gunpoint
- stabbing
- slang
- interrogation
- runaway train
- damsel in distress
- prohibition era
- racial stereotype
- b movie
- stolen jewelry
- pre-code
- spinster
- telephone box
- stock footage
- san francisco, california
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- July 6, 1932
- Original language
- English
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- Columbia Pictures
- Cast
- William V. Mong,Martha Mattox,Lee Phelps,Dwight Frye,Kit Guard,Ethel Kenyon,DeWitt Jennings,Eddie Kane,Kenneth Thomson,Ben Lyonand 17 more
- Director
- Benjamin Stoloff
- Cinematography
- Ted Tetzlaff
- Budget
- Not recorded
- Revenue
- Not recorded
- IMDb
- tt0022733