The Silent Passenger

The Silent Passenger is a British black-and-white mystery film produced in 1935 at Ealing Studios, London.[1] This was the first film outing for novelist Dorothy L. Sayers' fictional amateur sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey. It is based on an original story written by Sayers specifically for the screen. Her amateur sleuth was portrayed as a somewhat eccentric comical aristocrat who solved murders in spite of himself. As of 2014, the film is available on DVD.

The Silent Passenger
Film credits
Directed byReginald Denham
Produced byHugh Perceval
Written byBasil Mason
Based ona story
by Dorothy L. Sayers
StarringJohn Loder
Peter Haddon
Music byPercival Mackey
CinematographyJan Stallich
Edited byThorold Dickinson
Release date
  • 11 November 1935 (1935-11-11) (UK)
Running time
75 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

Plot

A blackmailer is murdered by the husband of one of his victims, railway 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 the English Channel, with Ryder acting as "bait" to flush out the real killer and solve the murder.

Cast

References
  1. "Silent Passenger, The". The Complete Index To World Film since 1895. Alan Goble. Retrieved 17 January 2008.


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