Before Midnight | |
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Directed by | Lambert Hillyer |
Screenplay by | Robert Quigley |
Produced by | Irving Briskin |
Starring | Ralph Bellamy June Collyer br>Claude Gillingwater |
Cinematography | John Stumar |
Edited by | Otto Meyer |
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Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
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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 . [2]
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.