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15 August 1936 (USA) morePlot:
US private eye sorts out European crime wave. With female sidekick in tow, wisecracking private eye follows a trail of corpses around Europe... more | add synopsisPlot Keywords:
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Who's Been Wrecking Those Trains? moreCast
(Complete credited cast)| Edmund Lowe | ... | John Harwood | |
| Constance Cummings | ... | Caryl Fenton | |
| Thomy Bourdelle | ... | Monsieur Paul Turbé | |
| Henry Oscar | ... | Axel Hoyt | |
| Felix Aylmer | ... | Sir Charles Webber | |
| Joyce Kennedy | ... | Elizabeth Wentworth | |
| O.B. Clarence | ... | Registrar | |
| Mark Lester | ... | Chief Constable (Captain Fitzgerald) | |
| Allan Jeayes | ... | Heinrich Wagner | |
| Anthony Holles | ... | Reception Clerk | |
| David Horne | ... | Hotel Manager | |
| Edwin Laurence | ... | Guildhall Guide | |
| James Harcourt | ... | Vicar (Father Blanchard) |
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The second train wreck in this film, which is also called "The Wrecker", is the same one that was staged for the climax of The Wrecker (1929). Footage of that crash, not used in the earlier film, was edited together with new shots. Another train wreck was done mostly with models and stock footage from newsreels. moreFAQ
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American stars Edmund Lowe and Constance Cummings went over to Great Britain to film this Hitchcock like mystery thriller in 1936. Lowe went back to the USA, but Ms. Cummings stayed in Great Britain where she resided for the rest of her career.
Lowe is a private detective and Cummings works for an insurance company and both are trying to find a killer whose method of homicide is to either wreck trains to kill somebody or to cause a wreck to hide the body of someone he's already killed.
In a manner like Cary Grant and Eva Marie Saint from North By Northwest, Lowe and Cummings exchange some very witty dialog. Other Hitchcock pictures that you will see elements of here in Seven Sinners are The Thirty Nine Steps, The Lady Vanishes, and Foreign Correspondent.
This wrecker is a pretty clever guy and it is only in the final minutes that our intrepid heroes realize who it is. And I don't think the audience will realize it either.
All that's missing is Alfred Hitchcock's portly cameo.