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By Whose Hand?
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By Whose Hand?

Jul 6, 1932
1h 5m
★ 6.0

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.

Genres

Mystery
Crime

Production Companies

Columbia Pictures

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Cast

Ben Lyon

Jimmy Hawley

Ben Lyon

Barbara Weeks

Alice Murray

Barbara Weeks

Kenneth Thomson

Chambers

Kenneth Thomson

Ethel Kenyon

Eileen Ayensworth

Ethel Kenyon

William V. Mong

Graham

William V. Mong

Dolores Ray

Bride (as Dolores Rey)

Dolores Ray

Nat Pendleton

'Killer' Delmar

Nat Pendleton

Tom Dugan

Drunk

Tom Dugan

Dwight Frye

Chick Lewis

Dwight Frye

Billy Bletcher

Police Radio Dispatcher (uncredited) (unconfirmed)

Billy Bletcher

Kit Guard

Trainman (uncredited)

Kit Guard

William Halligan

Detective (uncredited)

William Halligan

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