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By Whose Hand?

6.619321h 5mMovieMysteryCrime

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…

DirectorBenjamin Stoloff
WriterHarry Adler

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Cast · Directed by Benjamin Stoloff

BLBen Lyon
Ben Lyon
Jimmy Hawley
BWBarbara Weeks
Barbara Weeks
Alice Murray
KTKenneth Thomson
Kenneth Thomson
Chambers
EKEthel Kenyon
Ethel Kenyon
Eileen Ayensworth
WMWilliam V. Mong
William V. Mong
Graham
DRDolores Ray
Dolores Ray
Bride (as Dolores Rey)
NPNat Pendleton
Nat Pendleton
'Killer' Delmar
TDTom Dugan
Tom Dugan
Drunk
DFDwight Frye
Dwight Frye
Chick Lewis
BBBilly Bletcher
Billy Bletcher
Police Radio Dispatcher (uncredited) (unconfirmed)
KGKit Guard
Kit Guard
Trainman (uncredited)
WHWilliam Halligan
William Halligan
Detective (uncredited)

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