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By Whose Hand?

6.0 65 mins Mystery   Crime   1932
Columbia Pictures  
Director(s): Benjamin Stoloff

Release Date: 06 Wed, Jul 1932

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.

Casts of By Whose Hand?

Ben Lyon

as Jimmy Hawley

Barbara Weeks

as Alice Murray

Kenneth Thomson

as Chambers

Ethel Kenyon

as Eileen Ayensworth

William V. Mong

as Graham

Dolores Ray

as Bride (as Dolores Rey)

Nat Pendleton

as 'Killer' Delmar

Tom Dugan

as Drunk

Dwight Frye

as Chick Lewis

Billy Bletcher

as Police Radio Dispatcher (uncredited) (unconfirmed)

Kit Guard

as Trainman (uncredited)

William Halligan

as Detective (uncredited)

DeWitt Jennings

as City Editor (uncredited)

Eddie Kane

as Eileen's Accomplice (uncredited)

Martha Mattox

as Spinster Train Passenger (uncredited)

Tom McGuire

as Train Conductor (uncredited)

Helene Millard

as Mrs. Leonard - Widow (uncredited)

Lee Phelps

as Ticket Agent (uncredited)

Lorin Raker

as Bridegroom (uncredited)

Buddy Roosevelt

as Charles - Chambers' Chauffeur (uncredited) (unconfirmed)

Matty Roubert

as Second Newsboy (uncredited)

Oscar Smith

as Pullman Porter (uncredited)

Emma Tansey

as Chick's Mother (uncredited)

Polly Walters

as Blonde Cigar Stand Attendant (uncredited)

Florence Wix

as Outraged Woman in Phone Booth (uncredited)

Allen Wood

as First Newsboy (uncredited)

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