Before Midnight (1933 film)

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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 byColumbia Pictures
Release date
  • November 18, 1933 (1933-11-18)
Running time
63 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

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]

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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

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References

  1. Backer, p. 195
  2. Blottner, Gene (2011). "Inspector Trent". Columbia Pictures Movie Series, 1926–1955: The Harry Cohn Years. McFarland. ISBN   9780786486724.

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