Yahoo Web Search

  1. Murder in the Private Car

    Murder in the Private Car

    1934 · Mystery · 1h

Search results

  1. Murder in the Private Car: Directed by Harry Beaumont. With Charles Ruggles, Una Merkel, Mary Carlisle, Russell Hardie. A sleuth has to figure out who is threatening an heiress while she's aboard a train.

    • (676)
    • Ron Oliver
    • Passed
    • Harry Beaumont
  2. Language. English. Murder in the Private Car is a 1934 American pre-Code mystery romance film starring Mary Carlisle, Charles Ruggles and Una Merkel. Directed by Harry Beaumont, the production is based on the play The Rear Car by Edward E. Rose. [1] David Townsend was the film's art director. MGM had previously filmed it in the silent era as ...

  3. MGM's comic murder mystery Murder in the Private Car (1934), which runs a scant but brisk 65 minutes, is a lightweight programmer with a capricious attitude toward plotting and a script unencumbered by logic. That gives it a kind of camp entertainment value today, and director Harry Beaumont, once a marquee director for MGM, moves it all along ...

    • Harry Beaumont, Harry Sharrock, Earl Taggert
    • Charles Ruggles
  4. People also ask

  5. Murder in the Private Car. After Ruth Raymond (Mary Carlisle) discovers that her real father is railroad tycoon Luke Carson (Berton Churchill), she's kidnapped for her newfound fortune. Saved in ...

    • Mystery & Thriller
    • Charlie Ruggles
    • Harry Beaumont
    • Murder in the Private Car1
    • Murder in the Private Car2
    • Murder in the Private Car3
    • Murder in the Private Car4
  6. Murder in the Private Car (1934) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. Menu. Movies. Release Calendar Top 250 Movies Most ...

  7. Edgar Allan Woolf. Screenplay. Ruth Raymond works on the telephone switchboard of a large NYC office building. One day, a private detective informs her that she is actually the daughter of railroad tycoon Luke Carson, and that she had been kidnapped as a baby 14 years ago by Luke's vindictive brother Elwood, and placed with strangers.

  8. Harry Beaumont, a director-composer most closely associated with MGM's musical product, does a nice job handling the tongue-in-cheek melodramatics of Murder in the Private Car. Charlie Ruggles goes through his standard drunken-detective act as amateur gumshoe Scott, who stumbles onto a dead body when he wanders into the wrong train car.

  1. People also search for