The Silent Passenger

The Silent Passenger

Film credits
Directed by Reginald Denham
Produced by Hugh Perceval
Written by Basil Mason based on a novel by Dorothy L Sayers
Music by Percival Mackey
Cinematography Jan Stallich
Release dates
 1935 United Kingdom
Running time
 75 min.
Country  United Kingdom
Language English

The Silent Passenger is a British black-and-white mystery film made in 1935 at Ealing Studios, London.[1]

Synopsis

A detective mystery in which a lord sets out to prove that a man did not kill his wife's blackmailer.

This was the first film outing for novelist Dorothy L. Sayers' fictional amateur sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey. The Silent Passenger was an original story written by Sayers specifically for the screen but unfortunately her amateur sleuth turn out as a somewhat eccentric imbecile who solved murders in spite of himself.

A blackmailer is murdered by the husband of one of his victims, a railway detective Henry Camberley (Donald Wolfit), but it is the innocent John Ryder (John Loder) who is suspected of the murder when Camberley puts the dead body into his trunk. After making the casual acquaintance of Ryder, amateur detective Lord Peter Wimsey (Peter Haddon) sets about proving his friend's innocence. All these events take place while on a train trip from London to the English Channel, with Ryder acting as "bait" to flush out the real killer and solve the murder.

Cast

References

  1. ↑ "Silent Passenger, The". The Complete Index To World Film since 1895. Alan Goble. Retrieved 2008-01-17.

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