Half Past Midnight
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Half Past Midnight | |
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Directed by | William F. Claxton |
Written by | Arnold Belgard |
Produced by | Sol M. Wurtzel |
Starring | Kent Taylor Peggy Knudsen |
Cinematography | Benjamin H. Kline |
Edited by | Frank Baldridge |
Music by | Darrell Calker |
Distributed by | 20th Century Fox |
Release date | March 1948 |
Running time | 69 min. |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Half Past Midnight is a 1948 American comedy murder mystery film. It was William F. Claxton's first directed feature after eight years as a film editor.
Plot[]
Kent Taylor plays a man who meets a dancer in a nightclub. She's implicated in a killing, and he's drawn into escaping from the police with her through Chinatown as they seek the real murderer.
Cast[]
- Kent Taylor as Wade Hamilton
- Peggy Knudsen as Sally Ferris / Sally Parker
- Joe Sawyer as Detective Nash
- Walter Sande as Detective MacDonald
- Martin Kosleck as Cortez
- Mabel Paige as Hester Thornwall
- Gil Stratton as Chick Patrick
- Jean Wong as Blossom Gow
- Jane Everett as Carlotta Evans
- Damian O'Flynn as Murray Evans
- Richard Loo as Lee Gow
- Tom Dugan as Bus Tour Guide
- Jean De Briac as Nightclub Headwaiter
- Willie Best as Nightclub Janitor
- Victor Sen Yung as Hotel Porter
External links[]
Categories:
- English-language films
- 1948 films
- American films
- 20th Century Fox films
- 1948 mystery films
- American mystery films
- Films produced by Sol M. Wurtzel
- American black-and-white films
- Mystery film stubs