- Source: Murder at Midnight (1931 film)
Murder at Midnight (a.k.a. The Monster Kills) is a 1931 American pre-Code murder mystery whodunnit directed by Frank R. Strayer.
Plot
A murder during a game of charades at a society party leads the police to begin the hunt through the guest-list for a motive and culprit, involving a changed will and booby-trapped telephones. The killer strikes several more times to conceal his or her identity, until all is revealed.
Cast
Aileen Pringle as Esme Kennedy
Alice White as Millie Scripps
Hale Hamilton as Phillip Montrose
Robert Elliott as Inspector Taylor
Clara Blandick as Aunt Julia Gray Kennedy
Brandon Hurst as Lawrence
Leslie Fenton as Walter Grayson
William Humphrey as Colton
Tyrell Davis as The Englishman
Kenneth Thomson as Jim Kennedy
Robert Ellis as Duncan Channing
Post production
Footage from the film was re-used in The Mirror Crack'd (1980).
Preservation status
A print is preserved in the Library of Congress collection Packard Campus for Audio-Visual Conservation. A working/alternative title is The Monster Kills.
References
External links
Murder at Midnight at IMDb
Murder at Midnight is available for free viewing and download at the Internet Archive
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- The Midnight Patrol
- The Laurel-Hardy Murder Case
- One Good Turn (film 1931)
- Ralph Bellamy
- Robert Emmett O'Connor
- Theodore Lorch
- Spencer Charters
- Edmund Burns
- Martin G. Cohn
- Beulah Marie Dix
- Murder at Midnight (1931 film)
- Murder at Midnight
- Rendezvous at Midnight
- Star of Midnight
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- White Zombie (film)
- List of plays adapted into feature films
- The Drums of Jeopardy (1931 film)
- Midnight Mystery
- Richard Hickock
