Tangled Destinies
An airliner makes a forced landing at night in the desert. The passengers and crew take refuge in a nearby deserted house. Soon some of the passengers are found murdered, and one of the passengers reveals himself to be a detective who was guarding one of the murdered passengers, who was carrying a bag of diamonds--which is now missing. The detective must find out which of the passengers is the killer.
From the archive
I've been researching newly public domain films from 1929 and earlier, along with other pictures of the era that I find interesting, so I'm uploading the best possible copies that I can find. This low-budget mystery only really has one claim to fame: being one of the few films from the year that entered the public domain early. That said, it does have a few interesting tidbits around it. It was one of the earliest films selected for television broadcast in 1942, and also stars Chinese-American actor James B. Leong in a minor role. It follows a group aboard a passenger plane that makes an emergency landing, only to discover that one of them is a killer.
Why this is free to watch
Tangled Destinies (1932) is hosted by the Internet Archive as a public-domain or openly licensed work, which means its copyright has expired, lapsed, or was released by the rights holder. The uploader declared an explicit licence, linked in the source panel. Nitrate streams the file directly from the Archive and hosts no video itself.
- Director
- Frank R. Strayer
- Starring
- Gene Morgan, Doris Hill, Glenn Tryon, Vera Reynolds, Ethel Wales, Monaei Lindley, Syd Saylor, Sidney Bracey
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