Union Station (film)

Union Station is a 1950 Film Noir crime drama, directed by Rudolph Mat. The drama features William Holden, Barry Fitzgerald, and Nancy Olson, among others.

Joyce is the secretary to a rich man named Henry Murchison Herbert Hayes, whose blind daughter, Lorna, has been kidnapped and held for ransom. The railway station where Calhoun works has been chosen as the location to pay off the ransom. Calhoun and fellow cop Inspector Donnelly race against time to find the kidnappers and bring them to justice.The film was based on Nightmare in Manhattan, an Edgarwinning novel by Thomas Walsh. Sydney Boehms script for the film version was nominated for an Edgar in the screenplay category. Aside from changing the setting from New York Citys Grand Central Station to Chicagos Union Station though the Los Angeles Union Station was the actual filming location, and changing the kidnap victim from a little boy to a blind, teenaged girl, the script was quite faithful to its source material. ........

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