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Murder in the Private Car (1934)
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29 June 1934 (USA) morePlot:
Ruth Raymond works on the switchboard and her boyfriend is John Blake. It has taken 14 years, but a... more | add synopsisUser Comments:
crime thrilla set on a train - 1934 moreCast
(Complete credited cast)| Charles Ruggles | ... | Godfrey D. Scott (as Charlie Ruggles) | |
| Una Merkel | ... | Georgia Latham | |
| Mary Carlisle | ... | Ruth Raymond - aka Ruth Carson | |
| Russell Hardie | ... | John Blake | |
| Porter Hall | ... | Alden Murray | |
| Willard Robertson | ... | Hanks - Car Conductor | |
| Berton Churchill | ... | Luke Carson | |
| Clifford Thompson | ... | Mr. Allen (as Cliff Thompson) | |
| Fred 'Snowflake' Toones | ... | Titus - Car Porter (as Snowflake) | |
| rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
| Harry Semels | ... | Evil Eye (scenes deleted) | |
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Charles Ruggles, Mary Carlisle, and Una Merkel star in this crime thriller on a train, made just as the Hays Production was starting to be enforced. Merkel and Carlisle are telephone operators, Ruth and Georgia, but when circumstances change, they end up on a train, in a private car, with the absent minded, stuttering Ruggles as Godfrey Scott. He "deflects" crimes before they occur....(?) And of course, a 35 year old Sterling Holloway (voice of Winnie the Pooh) as an office boy. Keep a quick eye out for Walter Brennan, the railroad switch- man, in a real brief appearance. They pack a lot of action into the 63 minute shortie from MGM. Good photography with the train "chase scenes", in spite of all the back mattes and sped up film scenes used. There is a confusing scene near the beginning, before they all get on the train, but it becomes quite an entertaining film. Appears to have been remade in 1942 as Grand Central Murder (?) also by MGM.