The Silent Passenger
The Silent Passenger is a 1935 British black-and-white mystery film directed by Reginald Denham and starring John Loder, Peter Haddon and Lilian Oldland. It was written by Basil Mason based on an original story written by Dorothy L. Sayers specifically for the screen. It was produced at Ealing Studios, London.
Plot
Maurice Windermere, a blackmailer, is absconding to France with Mollie Ryder, one of his victims. While waiting for the train to take them to the cross Channel ferry, he is murdered by the husband of another one of his victims, railway detective Henry Camberley. Bridge engineer John Ryder, Mollie's husband, jealously searching for her, breaks into Windermere's room just after Camberley has killed Windermere and hidden him in a trunk.
More details
| author | Basil Mason |
|---|---|
| contentLocation | London |
| director | Reginald Denham |
| editor | Thorold Dickinson |
| genre | crime mystery |
| keywords | amateur detective blackmail follow french police kill murder search suspect tick wait |
| musicBy | Percival Mackey |
| producer | Hugh Perceval |