By Whose Hand?

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.

Cast

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)

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