- The Silent Passenger
Infobox Film
name = The Silent Passenger
image_size = 200px
caption = Film credits
director =Reginald Denham
producer =Hugh Perceval
writer =Basil Mason based on anovel byDorothy L Sayers
narrator =
starring =
music =Percival Mackey
cinematography =Jan Stallich
editing =
distributor =
released =1935 United Kingdom
runtime = 75 min.
country = UK
language = English
budget =
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imdb_id = 0026996"The Silent Passenger" is a British black and white film made in
1935 atEaling Studios ,London . [cite web
title = Silent Passenger, The
work = The Complete Index To World Film since 1895
publisher = Alan Goble
url = http://www.citwf.com/film320510.htm
accessdate = 2008-01-17]ypnosis
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 sleuthLord 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
blackmail er is murdered by the husband of one of his victims, a railroad 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 theEnglish Channel , with Ryder acting as "bait" to flush out the real killer and solve the murder.Cast
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Peter Haddon as Lord Peter Wimsey
*John Loder as John Ryder
*Lilian Oldland as Mollie Ryder (as Mary Newland)
*Austin Trevor as Inspector Parker
*Donald Wolfit as Henry Camberley
*Leslie Perrins as Maurice Windermere
*Aubrey Mather as Bunter
*Robb Wilton as Porter
*Ralph Truman as Saunders
*Frederick Burtwell (uncredited)
*Ann Codrington (uncredited)
*George De Warfaz (uncredited)
*Annie Esmond (uncredited)
*Dorice Fordred (uncredited)
*Vincent Holman (uncredited)
*Gordon McLeod (uncredited)
*Percy Rhodes (uncredited)References
External links
* [http://www.citwf.com/film320510.htm The Complete Index To World Film since 1895]
* [http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/347308 The British Film Institute]
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