Murder in the Private Car

Murder in the Private Car
Directed byHarry Beaumont
Written byHarvey F. Thew (adaptation)
Screenplay byRalph Spence
Edgar Allan Woolf
Al Boasberg
Based onThe Rear Car
1922 play
by Edward E. Rose
Produced byLucien Hubbard
StarringCharles Ruggles
Una Merkel
Mary Carlisle
CinematographyLeonard Smith
James Van Trees
Edited byWilliam S. Gray
Distributed byMetro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release date
  • June 29, 1934 (1934-06-29) (United States)
Running time
63 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Murder in the Private Car is a 1934 American pre-Code mystery romance film starring Mary Carlisle, Charles Ruggles and Una Merkel. Directed by Harry Beaumont, the production is based on the play The Rear Car by Edward E. Rose.[1] David Townsend was the film's art director.

MGM had previously filmed it in the silent era as Red Lights (1923), starring Raymond Griffith.

  1. ^ Hal Erickson (2015). "Murder in the Private Car". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. Archived from the original on 2015-02-11.