By Whose Hand?
By Whose Hand?

By Whose Hand?

6.0(4 votes)
1932
1h 5m
Mystery
Crime

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.

Production

Columbia Pictures

Cast

Ben Lyon

Ben Lyon

Jimmy Hawley

Barbara Weeks

Barbara Weeks

Alice Murray

Kenneth Thomson

Kenneth Thomson

Chambers

Ethel Kenyon

Ethel Kenyon

Eileen Ayensworth

William V. Mong

William V. Mong

Graham

Dolores Ray

Dolores Ray

Bride (as Dolores Rey)

Nat Pendleton

Nat Pendleton

'Killer' Delmar

Tom Dugan

Tom Dugan

Drunk

Dwight Frye

Dwight Frye

Chick Lewis

Billy Bletcher

Billy Bletcher

Police Radio Dispatcher (uncredited) (unconfirmed)

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