The Film
By Whose Hand?
The Story
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.
1930s stolen jewelry spinster damsel in distress telephone box runaway train racial stereotype stock footage pre-code held at gunpoint interrogation police detective criminal stabbing train b movie fugitive murder revenge prison escape deception widow san francisco, california prohibition era slang robbery
Runtime
65 min
Released Jul 1932
Gallery
The Stills.
