Lady on a Train

Name: Lady on a Train
Genre: Mystery, Thriller, Romance, Crime, Film-Noir
Released: August 17, 1945
Duration: 94 min
Rating: 48
Cast: Allen Jenkins, Dan Duryea, David Bruce, Deanna Durbin, Edward Everett Horton

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Universal Pictures | Release Date: August 17, 1945 | Passed

Starring: Allen Jenkins, Dan Duryea, David Bruce, Deanna Durbin, Edward Everett Horton, Elizabeth Patterson, George Coulouris, Maria Palmer, Patricia Morison, Ralph Bellamy

Summary: In New York, a woman who partially witnesses a killing from a train window seeks the aid of a crime novelist to solve the murder.

Director: Charles David

Genre(s): Mystery, Thriller, Romance, Crime, Film-Noir

Rating: Passed

Runtime: 94 min

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TV Guide Magazine Staff (Not Credited)

This is a fast-paced movie with a bright and witty script and plenty of scary adventures which Durbin cleverly manages to survive. Read full review

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Lady on a Train is a mystery comedy containing plenty of fun for both whodunnit and laugh fans. Melodramatic elements in the Leslie Charteris original are flippantly treated without minimizing suspense, and the dialog contains a number of choice quips that are good for hefty laughs. Read full review

Staff (Not Credited)

Light, cheery and shading into darker areas for the climax, it's fun. Read full review

Staff (Not Credited)

Lady on a Train sets out to elicit chills and chuckles, but never quite reaches its modest destination. Read full review

Dave Kehr

This 1945 picture is much more felicitous than Christmas Holiday, the bizarre film noir that followed, though not nearly as memorable. Read full review

Pauline Kael

Ugh. A murder mystery that starts from a Leslie Charteris story but never gets anyplace you'd want to go to.

Bosley Crowther

It's an empty and careless little fable, intended to be a mystery farce, about the wholly incredible mix-up of a debutante in a murder plot. Read full review

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