By Whose Hand? (1932)
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.
- Released
- 1932-07-06
- Genres
- Mystery, Crime
- Runtime
- 65 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- Benjamin Stoloff
- TMDB rating
- 6.6/10 from 5 votes
Cast
- Ben Lyon as Jimmy Hawley
- Barbara Weeks as Alice Murray
- Kenneth Thomson as Chambers
- Ethel Kenyon as Eileen Ayensworth
- William V. Mong as Graham
- Dolores Ray as Bride (as Dolores Rey)
- 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)
- William Halligan as Detective (uncredited)