LADY ON A TRAIN (1945) ¢ ¢ ¢
D: Charles David
Deanna Durbin, David Bruce, Edward Everett Horton
Dan Duryea, Ralph Bellamy, Allen Jenkins,
George Coulouris, Patricia Morison, William Frawley
A young woman's reading a murder mystery on a train as it pulls into New York City. Looking out the window, she witnesses what appears to be a murder, which she's determined to solve herself, with the help of the author of the book she's been reading. An entertaining whodunit, part comedy and part mystery, with pauses in the storytelling so Deanna can sing a couple of tunes. Durbin was enormously popular in the 1940s, mostly in musicals, but her career was brief. She eventually married Charles David, this film's director, and retired at 27 in 1948.
