
By Whose Hand?
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.
Release Date: 1932-07-06
Mystery
Crime
★★★★★★★★★★ (4 votes)
Casts

Ben Lyon
as Jimmy Hawley

Barbara Weeks
as Alice Murray

Kenneth Thomson
as Chambers

Ethel Kenyon
as Eileen Ayensworth

William V. Mong
as Graham

Nat Pendleton
as 'Killer' Delmar

Tom Dugan
as Drunk

Dwight Frye
as Chick Lewis

Billy Bletcher
as Police Radio Dispatcher (uncredited) (unconfirmed)

Kit Guard
as Trainman (uncredited)