- Source: Before Morning
Before Morning is a 1933 American pre-Code crime drama directed by Arthur Hoerl, and starring Leo Carrillo, Lora Baxter, and Taylor Holmes. The film was
adapted for the screen by
Arthur Hoerl, from the 1933 Broadway play of the same name by Edward and Edna Riley.
Plot
Actress Elsie Manning is engaged to Horace Baker, but has also been in a romantic relationship with James Nichols who has named her as the beneficiary in his will. Not knowing about her engagement, Nichols asks his wife for a divorce and is refused. Nichols dies in Manning's apartment after she tells him she's engaged to Baker. When Baker arrives on the scene, he agrees to help her dispose of the body by having Nichols moved to a sanitarium. The owner, Dr. Gruelle, tells them Nichols was murdered by poison and attempts to extort money from Manning for his statement that the death was of natural causes. Gruelle tries the same scam on the widow of Nichols, who eventually agrees when the poison is found in her purse. It is revealed that Gruelle is in reality Police Inspector Maitland, intent on solving the murder.
Cast
Leo Carrillo – Dr. Gruelle/Mr. Maitland
Lora Baxter as Elsie Manning
Taylor Holmes as Leo Bergman
Blaine Cordner as Horace Baker
Louise Prussing as Mrs. Nichols
Russell Hicks as James Nichols
Louis Jean Heydt as Neil Kennedy
Jules Epailly as Ben Ayoub
Constance Bertrand as Diane
Terry Carroll as Doris
Victor Kilian as House Detective (uncredited)
References
External links
Before Morning at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films
Before Morning at IMDb
Before Morning at AllMovie
Before Morning at the TCM Movie Database
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