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.Backer, p. 195 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
Bibliography Backer, Ron. Mystery Movie Series of 1930s Hollywood. McFarland, 2012.
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