Midnight

Mar 7, 1934

1h 16m

★ 5.0

One woman was to die at midnight!...another woman was to kill at the same hour...why?

Overview

Jury foreman Edward Weldon's questioning leads to the death sentence for Ethel Saxon. His daughter Stella claims to have killed her lover, the gangster Garboni, just as Saxon was to sit in the electric chair.

Genres

Drama

Crime

Production Companies

all star productions

Midnight Trailers

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Cast

Gar Boni

Humphrey Bogart

Stella Weldon

Sidney Fox

Edward Weldon

O. P. Heggie

Nolan

Henry Hull

Mrs. Weldon

Margaret Wycherly

Joe Biggers

Lynne Overman

Elizabeth McGrath

Cora Witherspoon

Arthur Weldon

Richard Whorf

Richard McGrath

Granville Bates

Ada Biggers

Katherine Wilson

District Attorney Plunkett

Moffat Johnston

Edgar V. Ingersoll

Henry O'Neill

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