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Ajouter une intrigue dans votre langueA sleuth has to figure out who is threatening an heiress while she's aboard a train.A sleuth has to figure out who is threatening an heiress while she's aboard a train.A sleuth has to figure out who is threatening an heiress while she's aboard a train.
Charles Ruggles
- Godfrey D. Scott
- (as Charlie Ruggles)
Clifford Thompson
- Allen
- (as Cliff Thompson)
Fred 'Snowflake' Toones
- Titus
- (as Snowflake)
Harry Semels
- Evil Eye
- (scènes coupées)
Ernie Adams
- Taxi Driver
- (non crédité)
Hooper Atchley
- Conductor on Eastbound Train
- (non crédité)
William Augustin
- Policeman
- (non crédité)
Jack Baxley
- Holton Conductor
- (non crédité)
Art Berry Sr.
- Undetermined Secondary Role
- (non crédité)
Walter Brennan
- Switchman
- (non crédité)
Raymond Brown
- Bertillion Man
- (non crédité)
James P. Burtis
- Switchman
- (non crédité)
Histoire
Le saviez-vous
- AnecdotesA contemporary item listed the gorilla Naba for a role in the movie, but the Call Bureau Cast Service has Ray Corrigan in the role. All scenes with the gorilla appear to be an actor in a gorilla suit.
- GaffesWhen the train pulls into the Holton station, there is a shot between it and a stationary train when an odd fading jump cut is made. The people walking between the trains change, as does the position of the train pulling in on the left. However this is just an example of a screen dissolve, indicating the passage of time in the same location, so this is not a mistake.
- Citations
Godfrey D. Scott: Both your eyes are very pretty.
- ConnexionsVersion of Red Lights (1923)
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Good B thriller with a slam bang ending
This is the sort of B thriller that made movie-going fun back in the thirties. Mary Carlisle is a hard-working telephone operator at a stock brokerage who suddenly discovers that she's the long-lost daughter of a railroad tycoon. With best pal Una Merkel in tow, she's tricked into boarding a private railway car en route to a reunion with her father. But neither the car nor her fellow passengers are what they appear to be.
Some of it is sorta' silly. There's a circus train wreck thrown in for padding. And Charlie Ruggles' as a "deflective" detective has a few too many goofy bromides. But the climactic chase sequence, as a runaway car roars down miles of twisting mountain track, is superbly directed, shot and edited. And that was back in the days before CGI when you had to film the real thing.
While "Murder in the Private Car" isn't in the same league as "The Narrow Margin" (the gold standard among railroad mysteries,) it's well worth a look. Especially for train buffs. And in just a bit over an hour, it moves along like...well...like a speeding train.
Some of it is sorta' silly. There's a circus train wreck thrown in for padding. And Charlie Ruggles' as a "deflective" detective has a few too many goofy bromides. But the climactic chase sequence, as a runaway car roars down miles of twisting mountain track, is superbly directed, shot and edited. And that was back in the days before CGI when you had to film the real thing.
While "Murder in the Private Car" isn't in the same league as "The Narrow Margin" (the gold standard among railroad mysteries,) it's well worth a look. Especially for train buffs. And in just a bit over an hour, it moves along like...well...like a speeding train.
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- MikeMagi
- 19 mai 2010
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- Date de sortie
- Pays d’origine
- Langue
- Aussi connu sous le nom de
- Murder in the Private Car
- Lieux de tournage
- Dunsmuir, Californie, États-Unis(railroad yard)
- Société de production
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- Durée1 heure 3 minutes
- Couleur
- Rapport de forme
- 1.37 : 1
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