| Before Midnight | |
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| Directed by | Lambert Hillyer |
| Written by | Robert Quigley |
| Starring | Ralph Bellamy June Collyer Claude Gillingwater |
| Cinematography | John Stumar |
| Edited by | Otto Meyer |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
Release date | November 18, 1933 |
Running time | 63 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Before Midnight is a 1933 American pre-Code mystery crime film directed by Lambert Hillyer and starring Ralph Bellamy, June Collyer and Claude Gillingwater. Produced and distributed by Columbia Pictures, it was the first in a series of four films featuring Inspector Steve Trent of the NYPD.[1] Bellamy featured in all three sequels One Is Guilty, The Crime of Helen Stanley and Girl in Danger.
Plot
NYC Police Inspector Steve Trent is called to the estate of wealthy Edward Arnold around sixty miles outside NYC on a stormy night. Arnold has had a premonition that he is going to be murdered that night.
Cast
- Ralph Bellamy as Police Inspector Steve Trent
- June Collyer as Janet Holt
- Claude Gillingwater as John Fry
- Bradley Page as Howard B. Smith
- Betty Blythe as Mavis Fry
- Arthur Pierson as Dr. David R. Marsh
- George Cooper as Stubby
- William Jeffrey as Edward Arnold
- Joseph Crehan as Police Capt. Frank Flynn
- Otto Yamaoka as Kono
- Kit Guard as Jack
- Bob Kortman as Plainclothesman
- Edward LeSaint as Harry Graham
- Fred 'Snowflake' Toones as Taxi Driver
References
- ↑ Backer, p. 195
Bibliography
- Backer, Ron. Mystery Movie Series of 1930s Hollywood. McFarland, 2012.
External links
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