Bombay Mail (1934)
Directed by Edwin L. Marin
Genres - Mystery, Crime |
Sub-Genres - Crime Thriller, Detective Film |
Release Date - Jan 6, 1934 (USA - Unknown), Jan 6, 1934 (USA) |
Run Time - 66 min. |
Countries - United States |
MPAA Rating - NR
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Synopsis by Hal Erickson
Universal's Bombay Mail adheres to the pattern established by Paramount's Shanghai Express, with a group of Calcutta-bound train passengers thrust into a life-or-death situation. In the course of the 36-hour journey, a high-ranking British official (Ferdinand Gottschalk) and an equally prominent Maharajah (Douglas Gerrard) are both murdered. Police inspector Dyke (Edmund Lowe) would like to make an arrest, but is stymied by a lack of evidence -- or even a murder weapon. Complicating matters is a scheme hatched by a couple of other passengers to steal a valuable ruby. It turns out that a poisonous cobra is the instrument of death, and that the murderer is...well, no fair giving it away here. Future gossip queen Hedda Hopper appears as one of the most suspicious-looking suspects.
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governor, investigation, killing, murder, passenger, poison, search, snake, suspect, train [locomotive], wound [injury]