Before Morning

Oct 18, 1933

0h 56m

★ 3.7

A thrilling picturization of last season's outstanding mystery melodrama.

Overview

A night of love, intrigue, death and blackmail leaves stage-star Elise Manning's fate at stake in a conflict with the unscrupulous Doctor Gruell. A rejected lover dies in Miss Manning's apartment, and Gurell implies that the death was murder and attempts to blackmail the actress. The climax brings the actress, her fiancé and the dead-man's wife face-to-face in an emotional denouement.

Genres

Crime

Mystery

Romance

Production Companies

Weiss Productions

Before Morning Trailers

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Cast

Dr. Gruelle

Leo Carrillo

Elsie Manning

Lora Baxter

Leo Bergman

Taylor Holmes

Horace Barker

Blaine Cordner

Mrs. Nichols

Louise Prussing

Jim Nichols

Russell Hicks

Neil Kennedy

Louis Jean Heydt

Eddie

Victor Kilian

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