Lady on a Train
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Lady on a Train

1945Movie1 h 34 minNR

ComedyCrime
55
DecentGoodWatch score
IMDb6.7Metacritic48–Rotten Tomatoes71%75%
55
DecentGoodWatch score
IMDb6.7Metacritic48–Rotten Tomatoes71%75%

Summary

While watching from her train window, Nikki Collins witnesses a murder in a nearby building. When she alerts the police, they think she has read one too many mystery novels. She then enlists a popular mystery writer to help her solve the crime on her own, but her sleuthing attracts the attentions of suitors and killers.

Good for

  • Date night
  • Friends night
  • Teens

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Fingerprint

  • Keeps you guessing.
  • Puts you inside a crime.
  • Keeps you on edge.
The whole fingerprint· the print and its 12 scales

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Tropes

Stick 'em UpRare · in 27 titlesAverted when Mystery Writer Detective 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 rou…Mistaken for Special Guestin 91 titlesUnable 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.All 18 tropes

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