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''Lady on a Train'' is a 1945 American FilmNoir crime film directed by Charles David and starring Creator/DeannaDurbin, Creator/RalphBellamy, David Bruce, and Creator/GeorgeCoulouris.
While in a train halted at a station, Nikki Collins (Durbin) witnesses a murder committed in a nearby building. When she goes to the police they think she's read one too many mystery novels. She then enlists a popular mystery writer to help with her sleuthing.
While in a train halted at a station, Nikki Collins (Durbin) witnesses a murder committed in a nearby building. When she goes to the police they think she's read one too many mystery novels. She then enlists a popular mystery writer to help with her sleuthing.
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''Lady on a Train'' is a 1945 American comedic FilmNoir crime film mystery directed by Charles David and David, starring Creator/DeannaDurbin, Creator/RalphBellamy, David Bruce, and Creator/GeorgeCoulouris.
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''Lady on a Train'' is a 1945 American FilmNoir crime film directed by Charles David and starring Deanna Durbin, Creator/RalphBellamy, David Bruce, and Creator/GeorgeCoulouris.
While in a train halted at a station, Nikki Collins witnesses a murder committed in a nearby building. When she goes to the police they think she's read one too many mystery novels. She then enlists a popular mystery writer to help with her sleuthing.
While in a train halted at a station, Nikki Collins witnesses a murder committed in a nearby building. When she goes to the police they think she's read one too many mystery novels. She then enlists a popular mystery writer to help with her sleuthing.
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''Lady on a Train'' is a 1945 American FilmNoir crime film directed by Charles David and starring Deanna Durbin, Creator/DeannaDurbin, Creator/RalphBellamy, David Bruce, and Creator/GeorgeCoulouris.
While in a train halted at a station, Nikki Collins (Durbin) witnesses a murder committed in a nearby building. When she goes to the police they think she's read one too many mystery novels. She then enlists a popular mystery writer to help with hersleuthing.sleuthing.
While in a train halted at a station, Nikki Collins (Durbin) witnesses a murder committed in a nearby building. When she goes to the police they think she's read one too many mystery novels. She then enlists a popular mystery writer to help with her
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''Lady on a Train'' is a 1945 American FilmNoir crime film directed by Charles David and starring Deanna Durbin, Creator/RalphBellamy, and David Bruce.
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''Lady on a Train'' is a 1945 American FilmNoir crime film directed by Charles David and starring Deanna Durbin, Creator/RalphBellamy, and David Bruce.
Bruce, and Creator/GeorgeCoulouris.
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* RightHandCat: The sinister Mr. Saunders, who is one of the conspirators in Josiah Waring's murder, carries a white cat around with him. At one point, while sneaking around the nightclub, Nikki hears meowing from behind her and knows she's been discovered.
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* StickEmUp: Averted in ''Film/LadyOnATrain'' when MysteryWriterDetective Wayne Morgan jams his pipe into Danny's back and tells him it's a gun (something his hero does once per novel) only for Danny to sat "That's a pipe" and spin round and [[TapOnTheHead knock him out]]. Inverted later in the nightclub, when Danny sticks his gun in Wayne's back, only for Wayne to say "That's a pipe" and spin round and knock the weapon from Danny's hand, only to realise with horror it had actually been a real gun.
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* StickEmUp: Averted in ''Film/LadyOnATrain'' when MysteryWriterDetective Wayne Morgan jams his pipe into Danny's back and tells him it's a gun (something his hero does once per novel) only for Danny to sat "That's a pipe" and spin round and [[TapOnTheHead knock him out]]. Inverted later in the nightclub, when Danny sticks his gun in Wayne's back, only for Wayne to say "That's a pipe" and spin round and knock the weapon from Danny's hand, only to realise with horror it had actually been a real gun.
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* SassySecretary: Miss Fletcher is Wayne Morgan's secretary. She does not think very much of his writing and is not afraid to tell him so in a DeadpanSnarker fashion. When he tells her to take the latest chapters and type them up, she replies "Did you say 'tear them up'?"
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* StickEmUp: Averted in ''Film/LadyOnATrain'' when MysteryWriterDetective Wayne Morgan jams his pipe into Danny's back and tells him it's a gun (something his hero does once per novel) only for Danny to sat "That's a pipe" and spin round and [[TapOnTheHead knock him out]]. Inverted later in the nightclub, when Danny sticks his gun in Wayne's back, only for Wayne to say "That's a pipe" and spin round and knock the weapon from Danny's hand, only to realise with horror it had actually been a real gun.
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* TapOnTheHead: While sneaking into and out of Nikki's Apartment, Danny knocks out Haskell (twice) and Wayne with a simple tap on the head.
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* AloneWithThePsycho: During the climax, Nikki realises that the person she thought was rescuing her from the killer actually ''is'' the killer, and has just brought her into the room where he murdered Josiah...
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* NobodyHereButUsStatues: While searching the attic for the slippers, Nikki avoids being noticed by Saunders by posing as an armchair under a dust sheet.
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* ThatRemindsMeOfASong: Deanna Durban sings three songs. Two of them--"Give Me a Little Kiss" and "Night and Day" are justified by her character being forced onstage while impersonating a nightclub singer, but the third, "Silent Night," is sung into the telephone to her father.
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* ThatRemindsMeOfASong: Deanna Durban sings three songs. Two of them--"Give Me a Little Kiss" and "Night and Day" are Day"--are justified by her character being forced onstage while impersonating a nightclub singer, but the third, "Silent Night," is sung into the telephone to her father.
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* ThatRemindsMeOfASong: Deanna Durban sings three songs. Two of them--"Give Me a Little Kiss" and "Night and Day" are justified by her character being forced onstage while impersonating a nightclub singer, but the third, "Silent Night," is sung into the telephone to her father.
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* ExtremelyShortTimespan: Barring the last scene (which happens a undetermined, but short, time later), the events of the movie encompass about 48 hours.
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* ChairmanOfTheBrawl: After being locked in Margo's dressing room, Nikki escapes by throwing a chair through the TwoWayMirror.
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* ChairmanOfTheBrawl: After being locked in Margo's dressing room, Nikki escapes by throwing a chair through the TwoWayMirror.two-way mirror.
* CrowbarCombatant: Josiah Waring is murdered by being bashed with a crowbar.
* CrowbarCombatant: Josiah Waring is murdered by being bashed with a crowbar.
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* ChairmanOfTheBrawl: After being locked in Margo's dressing room, Nikki escapes by throwing a chair through the TwoWayMirror.
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* GrievousBottleyHarm: While fighting Wayne in the wine cellar, Saunders attempts to smash a bottle over his head, before toppling a wine rack over on both of them.
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* FollowThatCar: After failing to find the scene of the crime, Nikki goes to find Wayne Morgan. Seeinghim leaving his apartment with his fiancee, she hails a cab and tells the cabbie to "Follow that car".
* MysteryWriterDetective: Upon arrival in New York, Nikki goes to the police, but the desk sergeant, seeing the novel in her hand, assumes she imagined the crime. She decides that mystery writer Wayne Morgan must be able to solve a murder, finds him, and pesters him to get involved.
* RearWindowWitness: San Francisco debutante Nicki Collins goes to visit her aunt in New York.efore reaching Grand Central, Nicki's train makes a brief stop and, when she looks up from the book she is reading - a mystery by novelist Wayne Morgan - she witnesses a murder in a nearby building.
* MysteryWriterDetective: Upon arrival in New York, Nikki goes to the police, but the desk sergeant, seeing the novel in her hand, assumes she imagined the crime. She decides that mystery writer Wayne Morgan must be able to solve a murder, finds him, and pesters him to get involved.
* RearWindowWitness: San Francisco debutante Nicki Collins goes to visit her aunt in New York.efore reaching Grand Central, Nicki's train makes a brief stop and, when she looks up from the book she is reading - a mystery by novelist Wayne Morgan - she witnesses a murder in a nearby building.
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* AngryGuardDog: While trying to sneak on to the Waring estate, Nikki is chased by the estate's guard dogs and winds up trapped atop the fence while trying to escape them.
* CurtainCamouflage: Danny sneaks into Nikki's apartment to retrieve the slippers and hides behind the curtain. Haskell, who is leaving, sees his shoes sticking out from under the curtain. When he bends over to examine them, Danny knocks him out with a TapOnTheHead.
* FollowThatCar: After failing to find the scene of the crime, Nikki goes to find Wayne Morgan.Seeinghim Seeing him leaving his apartment with his fiancee, she hails a cab and tells the cabbie to "Follow that car".
* MakeItLookLikeAnAccident: After Josiah Waring is murdered, he body is moved to his mansion and arranged to to look as if he had fallen of a stepladder while trimming his Christmas tree.
* MistakenForSpecialGuest: Unable to find the crime scene, Nicki sneaks onto the grounds of Waring's mansion. She is mistaken for Margo Martin, who was expected but has not come. Waring's will is read by his lawyer, Wiggam: Waring's nephews Arnold and Jonathan are not surprised to receive a token $1 inheritance, while the bulk of the estate goes to Margo Martin—his trophy fiancee and a singer at a nightclub he owns.
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* RearWindowWitness: San Francisco debutante Nicki Collins goes to visit her aunt in NewYork.efore York Before reaching Grand Central, Nicki's train makes a brief stop and, when she looks up from the book she is reading - a mystery by novelist Wayne Morgan - she witnesses a murder in a nearby building.building.
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* CurtainCamouflage: Danny sneaks into Nikki's apartment to retrieve the slippers and hides behind the curtain. Haskell, who is leaving, sees his shoes sticking out from under the curtain. When he bends over to examine them, Danny knocks him out with a TapOnTheHead.
* FollowThatCar: After failing to find the scene of the crime, Nikki goes to find Wayne Morgan.
* MakeItLookLikeAnAccident: After Josiah Waring is murdered, he body is moved to his mansion and arranged to to look as if he had fallen of a stepladder while trimming his Christmas tree.
* MistakenForSpecialGuest: Unable to find the crime scene, Nicki sneaks onto the grounds of Waring's mansion. She is mistaken for Margo Martin, who was expected but has not come. Waring's will is read by his lawyer, Wiggam: Waring's nephews Arnold and Jonathan are not surprised to receive a token $1 inheritance, while the bulk of the estate goes to Margo Martin—his trophy fiancee and a singer at a nightclub he owns.
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''Lady on a Train'' is a 1945 American FilmNoir crime film directed by Charles David and starring Deanna Durbin, Creator/RalphBellamy, and David Bruce.
While in a train halted at a station, Nikki Collins witnesses a murder committed in a nearby building. When she goes to the police they think she's read one too many mystery novels. She then enlists a popular mystery writer to help with her sleuthing.
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* FollowThatCar: After failing to find the scene of the crime, Nikki goes to find Wayne Morgan. Seeinghim leaving his apartment with his fiancee, she hails a cab and tells the cabbie to "Follow that car".
* MysteryWriterDetective: Upon arrival in New York, Nikki goes to the police, but the desk sergeant, seeing the novel in her hand, assumes she imagined the crime. She decides that mystery writer Wayne Morgan must be able to solve a murder, finds him, and pesters him to get involved.
* RearWindowWitness: San Francisco debutante Nicki Collins goes to visit her aunt in New York.efore reaching Grand Central, Nicki's train makes a brief stop and, when she looks up from the book she is reading - a mystery by novelist Wayne Morgan - she witnesses a murder in a nearby building.
''Lady on a Train'' is a 1945 American FilmNoir crime film directed by Charles David and starring Deanna Durbin, Creator/RalphBellamy, and David Bruce.
While in a train halted at a station, Nikki Collins witnesses a murder committed in a nearby building. When she goes to the police they think she's read one too many mystery novels. She then enlists a popular mystery writer to help with her sleuthing.
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!!Tropes:
* FollowThatCar: After failing to find the scene of the crime, Nikki goes to find Wayne Morgan. Seeinghim leaving his apartment with his fiancee, she hails a cab and tells the cabbie to "Follow that car".
* MysteryWriterDetective: Upon arrival in New York, Nikki goes to the police, but the desk sergeant, seeing the novel in her hand, assumes she imagined the crime. She decides that mystery writer Wayne Morgan must be able to solve a murder, finds him, and pesters him to get involved.
* RearWindowWitness: San Francisco debutante Nicki Collins goes to visit her aunt in New York.efore reaching Grand Central, Nicki's train makes a brief stop and, when she looks up from the book she is reading - a mystery by novelist Wayne Morgan - she witnesses a murder in a nearby building.
