A Shot in the Dark is a 1935 American mystery film directed by Charles Lamont and starring Charles Starrett, Robert Warwick and Marion Shilling.^[1] Produced by Chesterfield Pictures, it is an adaptation of the novel The Dartmouth Murders by Clifford Orr.

A college student (Charles Starrett) discovers his roommate's body hanging from a window and calls the police. What at first looks like suicide turns out to be murder. While a police investigation is ongoing, more students are killed.

• Charles Starrett as Kenneth "Ken" Harris
• Robert Warwick as Joseph Harris
• Edward Van Sloan as Prof. Bostwick
• Marion Shilling as Jean Coates
• Helen Jerome Eddy as Miss Lottie Case
• Doris Lloyd as Lucille Coates
• James Bush as Byron Coates / John Meseraux
• Julian Madison as Charlie Penlon
• Eddie Tamblyn as Bill Smart
• Ralph Brooks as Sam Anderson
• Robert McKenzie as Sheriff
• John Davidson as Prof. Brand
• Herbert Bunston as College President
• George Morrell as Deputy Ab Barber
• Broderick O'Farrell as Dr. Howell
• Jane Keckley as Bostwick's Housekeeper

The New York Times wrote, "A Shot in the Dark, which pictures a trilogy of murders on a rural college campus, telegraphs its punches in a way that may seem insignificant to Chesterfield Productions, Inc., but is as good as a confession to us amateur gumshoes...a decided absence of liveliness both in the writing and the playing";^[2] whereas Fantastic Movie Musings and Ramblings noted, "a very good mystery...It does have some problems, particularly in having a rather stiff and static presentation, but outside of that, this is one of the more pleasant discoveries I've made."^[3]