Movie |
Film Noir | Murder
Disclaimer: All content and media belong to original content streaming platforms/owners like Netflix, Disney+ Hotstar, Amazon Prime Videos, JioCinema, SonyLIV etc. 91mobiles entertainment does not claim any rights to the content and only aggregate the content along with the service providers links.
Best Sound Recording | 1946
Deanna Durbin and director Charles David were wed in 1950 and retired to a life in rural France. They remained married until his death in 1999.
Lady on a Train (1945) is adapted from the same short story by Leslie Charteris that provides the basis for Return of the Saint: Signal Stop (1978) from the series Return of the Saint (1978), about Simon Templar, a character Charteris created. According to Robert S. Baker, the executive producer of "Return of the Saint", Charteris was surprised by the similarity of Signal Stop to Lady on a Train. Whether John Kruse had seen the latter film prior to writing Signal Stop is unknown.
Last film of Ralph Bellamy for ten years until The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell (1955).
Despite singing three songs, this is a rare non-musical movie role for Deanna Durbin, who had been one of Universal Pictures' biggest box office stars in the late 1930s and early 1940s. It was produced as a vehicle to propel her career.
Since audiences expected to hear Deanna Durbin sing in her films, the screenwriters had to work at least a handful of singing opportunities into this film's faux murder mystery plot. At one point, they resort to having Durbin's character sing an extensive a capella version of "Silent Night" over the phone to her father on Christmas Eve.
"Nikki Collins: I just saw a murder."
"Mr. Haskell: Your father told the whole office of how you uncovered a spy in San Francisco. Nikki Collins: Well, he had no right hanging around the Golden Gate Bridge. Mr. Haskell: So you had him arrested? Nikki Collins: Certainly I had him arrested, he had buck teeth just like a Jap. Mr. Haskell: Buckteeth or no buckteeth that man was a member of the FBI."
