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The Lost Special (1932)

The Lost Special poster
Directed by
Henry MacRae
Genre
mystery film
Country
United States
Runtime
4h
Rating
6.0 of 10 from 3 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A train goes missing in the American Old West. A group of people try to solve the mystery of its disappearance.

old-fashionedmysteriousfast-pacedadventurousdatedplot-drivensimplepulp-like

What happens

The Lost Special is a 1932 American Pre-Code Universal movie serial based on the 1898 short story "The Lost Special" by Arthur Conan Doyle. This adaptation deleted all references to Doyle's Sherlock Holmes character, and moved events to the American Old West. This was the 84th serial (and the 16th serial with sound) to be released by Universal. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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