By Whose Hand?

  • Mystery
  • Crime
7/6/1932
65

Storyline

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.

Director:
Benjamin Stoloff
Writer:
Harry Adler
    • robbery
    • slang
    • prohibition era
    • san francisco, california
    • widow
    • deception
    • prison escape
    • revenge
    • murder
    • fugitive
    • b movie
    • train
    • stabbing
    • criminal
    • police detective
    • interrogation
    • held at gunpoint
    • pre-code
    • stock footage
    • racial stereotype
    • runaway train
    • telephone box
    • damsel in distress
    • spinster
    • stolen jewelry
    • 1930s

    Cast

    • Ben Lyon
      Jimmy Hawley
    • Barbara Weeks
      Alice Murray
    • Kenneth Thomson
      Chambers
    • Ethel Kenyon
      Eileen Ayensworth
    • William V. Mong
      Graham
    • Dolores Ray
      Bride (as Dolores Rey)
    • Nat Pendleton
      'Killer' Delmar
    • Tom Dugan
      Drunk
    • Dwight Frye
      Chick Lewis
    • Billy Bletcher
      Police Radio Dispatcher (uncredited) (unconfirmed)
    • Kit Guard
      Trainman (uncredited)
    • William Halligan
      Detective (uncredited)
    • DeWitt Jennings
      City Editor (uncredited)
    • Eddie Kane
      Eileen's Accomplice (uncredited)
    • Martha Mattox
      Spinster Train Passenger (uncredited)
    • Tom McGuire
      Train Conductor (uncredited)

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