The Silent Passenger
A blackmailer with many enemies is murdered and his body placed in a trunk. A gentleman sleuth sets out to prove the innocence of a falsely accused man.
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"In what is probably one of the earliest film adaptations of a Lord Peter Wimsey novel we have the great detective in action on a night time train. You'll forgive the lack of detail as to the plot, but the film is so dull that other than bodies ending up in baskets or trunks, I've drawn a blank as to what actually occurred. This is not a particularly good film and is so bland that unless I had noticed that this was based on a Wimsey book I would scarcely have suspected it.Obviously this film did little to popularize the detective, and happily it didn't kill his career either. ..."
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First film made from a story by Dorothy L. Sayers. At the time, Sayers had already written several novels and short stories featuring the gentleman sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey, but this original story was written by Sayers specifically for the screen. She was disappointed with the final result.
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A blackmailer with many enemies is murdered and his body placed in a trunk. A gentleman sleuth sets out to prove the innocence of a falsely accused man.