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By Whose Hand? (1932)

Directed by Ben Stoloff

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 onboard. It’s up to 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.

Columbia Pictures Corp. Screenwriter: Harry Adler. Cinematographer: Teddy Tetzlaff. Editor: Maurice Wright. Cast: Ben Lyon, Barbara Weeks, Kenneth Thomson, Ethel Kenyon, Dwight Frye.

35mm, b/w, 63 min.