Grand Central Murder
Grand Central Murder is a comedymystery film released in 1942. It was based on Sue MacVeighs 1939 novel of the same name, and stars Van Heflin as a private investigator who is one of the suspects in a murder on a private train car in Grand Central Terminal. The film was directed by S. Sylvan Simon.
Convicted murderer Turk Stephen McNally escapes from police custody, crashing through a washroom window as a train pulls into Grand Central Station in New York. He telephones his former girlfriend, Broadway star Mida King Patricia Dane, and threatens to kill her. She leaves her show between acts and hides in a private train car on a siding at the station, planning to leave town and marry her rich, high society fiance, David V. Henderson Mark Daniels. However, her body is found by David and his exfiancee, Connie Furness Cecilia Parker.Police Inspector Gunther Sam Levene is called in to solve the crime. The doctor at the scene is unable to determine the cause of death. Turk is recaptured, and wisecracking private detective Rocky Custer Van Heflin, whom Turk had hired, is also brought in, as he had helped his client evade the police. Other suspects are rounded up Midas greedy phony psychic stepfather Ramon Roman Bohnen her exhusband Paul Rinehart George Lynn, who works at the station and her producer Frankie Ciro Tom Conway. Also mixed in are Midas maid, exburlesque singer Pearl Delroy Connie Gilchrist and her daughter Baby Betty Wells, Midas understudy. Then Roger Furness Samuel S. Hinds, Connies magnate father and chairman of the board of the railroad, shows up to guard his daughters interests. Gunther gets each to tell what they know, with the unwelcome assistance of Rocky. ........
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