Directed by:
Charles DavidCinematography:
Elwood BredellComposer:
Miklós RózsaCast:
Deanna Durbin, Ralph Bellamy, Edward Everett Horton, Allen Jenkins, David Bruce, George Coulouris, Patricia Morison, Dan Duryea, Maria Palmer (more)Plots(1)
By the mid-1940s, Universal's singing superstar, the twice-married Deanna Durbin, had outgrown her innocent ingenue image, and although her postwar films were mostly bland, Lady on a Train is a delicious hybrid of '40s romantic comedy and Agatha Christie mystery. A glamorous Deanna witnesses a murder, gets mixed up with the dead man's wacky family, and croons Cole Porter's "Night and Day" with throbbing allure. Five more Durbin features followed--but you're wise to make this smartly crafted Train, complete with surprising denouement, your final stop. (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
Deanna Durbin
Canada
Best movies:
It Started with Eve (1941)
Lady on a Train (1945)
Christmas Holiday (1944)
Ralph Bellamy
USA
Best movies:
Rosemary's Baby (1968)
Trading Places (1983)
The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell (1955)
Edward Everett Horton
USA
Best movies:
The Name of the Game (1968) (series)
Holiday (1938)
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
Allen Jenkins
USA
Best movies:
I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932)
The Front Page (1974)
Ball of Fire (1941)
David Bruce
USA
Best movies:
The Sea Hawk (1940)
Adventures of Don Juan (1948)
The Letter (1940)
George Coulouris
UK
Best movies:
Papillon (1973)
A Clockwork Orange (1971)
Citizen Kane (1941)
Patricia Morison
USA
Best movies:
Bernadette (1943)
Tarzan and the Huntress (1947)
Song of the Thin Man (1947)
Dan Duryea
USA
Best movies:
Scarlet Street (1945)
The Little Foxes (1941)
Ball of Fire (1941)
Maria Palmer
Austria-Hungary
Best movies:
The Web (1947)
Lady on a Train (1945)
Days of Glory (1944)
Elizabeth Patterson
USA
Best movies:
Little Women (1949)
The Smiling Lieutenant (1931)
Dinner at Eight (1933)
Samuel S. Hinds
USA
Best movies:
It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
Scarlet Street (1945)
Hellzapoppin' (1941)
William Frawley
USA
Best movies:
Monsieur Verdoux (1947)
Miracle on 34th Street (1947)
Gentleman Jim (1942)
Jacqueline deWit
USA
Best movies:
The Name of the Game (1968) (series)
Spellbound (1945)
All That Heaven Allows (1955)
Thurston Hall
USA
Best movies:
Dodge City (1939)
Virginia City (1940)
Rings on Her Fingers (1942)
André Charlot
France
Best movies:
Song of Love (1947)
Bernadette (1943)
The Great Sinner (1949)
George J. Lewis
Mexico
Best movies:
Casablanca (1942)
It Started with Eve (1941)
The Bad and the Beautiful (1952)
Lash La Rue
USA
Best movies:
Lady on a Train (1945)
Stagecoach (1986) (TV movie)
Barbara Bates
USA
Best movies:
All About Eve (1950)
Adventures of Don Juan (1948)
Johnny Belinda (1948)
Eddie Acuff
USA
Best movies:
The Roaring Twenties (1939)
Hellzapoppin' (1941)
The Phantom Creeps (1949) (TV movie) - a.f.
Eddy Waller
USA
Best movies:
Woman on the Run (1950)
The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
Boom Town (1940)