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Good news: Switchboard operator Ruth Raymond (Mary Carlisle) is the long-lost daughter of a railroad tycoon. Bad news: The cross-country train trip she takes to claim her birthright is going to be a veritable slay ride. A crazy-quilt concoction stitched together with laughs and chills in equal measure, Murder in the Private Car is a roaring-fast caper wherein a delightfully dithering Charlie Ruggles dubiously comes to the rescue as a “crime deflector.” It’s a haunted house on wheels, complete with grasping hands from hidden wall panels, a loose gorilla (courtesy of a circus train wreck en route) and a menacing mystery voice issuing ominous threats.
Original Release
06/29/1934
US Release
06/29/1934
Cast
Name | Character |
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Charles Ruggles | Godfrey D. Scott |
Una Merkel | Georgia Latham |
Mary Carlisle | Ruth Raymond |
Russell Hardie | John Blake |
Porter Hall | Alden Murray |
Willard Robertson | Elwood Carson aka Hanks / Hanks |
Berton Churchill | Luke Carson |
Clifford Thompson | Allen |
Fred 'Snowflake' Toones | Titus |
Harry Semels | Evil Eye |
Directors
Writers
Ralph Spence, Edgar Allan Woolf, Al Boasberg, Edward E. Rose, Harvey F. Thew
Cast
Name | Character |
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Charles Ruggles | Godfrey D. Scott |
Una Merkel | Georgia Latham |
Mary Carlisle | Ruth Raymond |
Russell Hardie | John Blake |
Porter Hall | Alden Murray |
Willard Robertson | Elwood Carson aka Hanks / Hanks |
Berton Churchill | Luke Carson |
Clifford Thompson | Allen |
Fred 'Snowflake' Toones | Titus |
Harry Semels | Evil Eye |
Ernie Adams | Taxi Driver |
Hooper Atchley | Conductor on Eastbound Train |
William Augustin | Policeman |
Jack Baxley | Holton Conductor |
Art Berry Sr. | Undetermined Secondary Role |
Walter Brennan | Switchman |
Raymond Brown | Bertillion Man |
James P. Burtis | Switchman |
Jack Cheatham | Circus Foreman |
Nick Copeland | Kangaroo Attendant |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Lucien Hubbard | Producer |