Synopsis
While watching from her train window, Nikki Collins witnesses a murder in a nearby building. When she alerts the police, they think she has read one too many mystery novels. She then enlists a popular mystery writer to help her solve the crime on her own, but her sleuthing attracts the attentions of suitors and killers.
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Cast
- Deanna DurbinNikki Collins / Margo Martin
- Ralph BellamyJonathan Waring
- David BruceWayne Morgan
- George CoulourisMr. Saunders, Circus Club Manager
- Allen JenkinsDanny (Waring chauffeur)
- Dan DuryeaArnold Waring
- Edward Everett HortonMr. Haskell
- Patricia MorisonJoyce Willams, Morgan's Girl
- Maria PalmerMargo Martin, Circus Club Singer
- Elizabeth PattersonAunt Charlotte Waring
Recommendations
- 75
TV Guide Magazine
This is a fast-paced movie with a bright and witty script and plenty of scary adventures which Durbin cleverly manages to survive. - 70
Time Out
Light, cheery and shading into darker areas for the climax, it's fun. - 70
Variety
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. - 50
Chicago Reader
This 1945 picture is much more felicitous than Christmas Holiday, the bizarre film noir that followed, though not nearly as memorable. - 50
Time
Lady on a Train sets out to elicit chills and chuckles, but never quite reaches its modest destination. - 40
The New York Times
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. - 40
The New Yorker
Ugh. A murder mystery that starts from a Leslie Charteris story but never gets anyplace you'd want to go to.
