Murder in the private car

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Movie
Original title Murder in the private car
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1934
length 63 minutes
Rod
Director Harry Beaumont
script Ralph Spence ,
Edgar Allen Woolf ,
Al Boasberg
production Lucien Hubbard
camera Leonard Smith ,
James Van Trees
cut William S. Gray
occupation

Murder in the Private Car is a 1934 American film produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer . The leading roles are played by Charles Ruggles , Una Merkel and Mary Carlisle . The film is based on the 1922 play The Rear Car by Edward E. Rose .

action

The film begins in Los Angeles . Telephone operator Ruth Raymond learns from her lawyer Alden Murray that she is the daughter of railroad tycoon Luke Carson. As a baby, out of hatred and jealousy, she was kidnapped by Luke's brother and business partner Elwood and abandoned with strangers. Since she is now the future heir to a large fortune and receives money from her father, she can afford a chauffeur and a bodyguard, both of whom are planning a robbery against her. However, the act can be foiled by Godfrey D. Scott who happened to be passing by.

Shortly thereafter, Ruth receives a message from her father who would rather meet her in New York instead of in Los Angeles as originally planned . However, this is a bogus message. So, together with her lawyer and best friend Georgia Latham, Ruth boarded a train to New York. After the light goes out in her sleeping compartment and an unknown voice threatens her to live only eight hours, Ruth meets her savior Godfrey D. Scott again. He introduces himself as an undercover agent who is supposed to thwart crimes.

After the train has to stop because of a broken circus train standing on the tracks, Ruth's lawyer Alden Murray is murdered. The unknown voice sounds again, this time announcing the death of all passengers in the compartment in five hours. A gorilla who has escaped from one of the circus wagons attacks Ruth and two of her fellow travelers before the damage to the train is repaired and the journey can continue.

At the next station, Ruth's father Luke Carson gets on the train, who has meanwhile found out about the wrong message for his daughter. Together with the other guests they go to Ruth's private compartment when all the windows are darkened and the voice can be heard again. Carson recognizes the voice of his brother Elwood and confronts him. He explains to him and the other passengers over loudspeakers that he has disconnected the wagon from the train and that it is now rolling down a slope. He also attached explosives to the bottom. Undercover cop Scott, however, can locate and kill Elwood in time before the car can be stopped. At the end of the film, the passengers change trains.

Others

The film was shot on the edge of the Donner Pass in the northern Sierra Nevada . Mary Carlisle, deceased in 2018, was the last person still alive to be involved in the film.

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