Midnight
One woman was to die at midnight!...another woman was to kill at the same hour...why?
1934 | 76m | English
Popularity: 1 (history)
| Director: | Chester Erskine |
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| Writer: | Chester Erskine |
| Staring: |
| 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. | |
| Release Date: | Mar 07, 1934 |
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| Director: | Chester Erskine |
| Writer: | Chester Erskine |
| Genres: | Drama, Crime |
| Keywords | death sentence, pre-code |
| Production Companies | all star productions |
| Box Office |
Revenue: $0
Budget: $0 |
| Updates |
Updated: Aug 03, 2024 Entered: Apr 20, 2024 |
| Name | Character |
|---|---|
| Humphrey Bogart | Gar Boni |
| Sidney Fox | Stella Weldon |
| O. P. Heggie | Edward Weldon |
| Henry Hull | Nolan |
| Margaret Wycherly | Mrs. Weldon |
| Lynne Overman | Joe Biggers |
| Cora Witherspoon | Elizabeth McGrath |
| Richard Whorf | Arthur Weldon |
| Granville Bates | Richard McGrath |
| Katherine Wilson | Ada Biggers |
| Moffat Johnston | District Attorney Plunkett |
| Henry O'Neill | Edgar V. Ingersoll |
| Helen Flint | Ethel Saxton |
| Name | Job |
|---|---|
| Chester Erskine | Director, Writer |
| Paul Sifton | Theatre Play |
| Claire Sifton | Theatre Play |
| William O. Steiner | Director of Photography |
| George Webber | Director of Photography |
| Leo Zochling | Editor |
| C.A. Tuthill | Sound |
| Name | Title |
|---|---|
| Chester Erskine | Producer |
| Organization | Category | Person |
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Popularity History
| Year | Month | Avg | Max | Min |
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| 2024 | 4 | 6 | 11 | 2 |
| 2024 | 5 | 8 | 18 | 4 |
| 2024 | 6 | 8 | 34 | 2 |
| 2024 | 7 | 4 | 7 | 2 |
| 2024 | 8 | 5 | 13 | 3 |
| 2024 | 9 | 2 | 6 | 1 |
| 2024 | 10 | 3 | 5 | 1 |
| 2024 | 11 | 3 | 7 | 1 |
| 2024 | 12 | 2 | 6 | 1 |
| 2025 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 2 |
| 2025 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 1 |
| 2025 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 1 |
| 2025 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 2025 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025 | 9 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 2025 | 10 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
| 2025 | 11 | 2 | 2 | 1 |
Trending Position
Every expense has been spared with this truly mediocre crime drama. A woman is accused and convicted for murder, but as the evening before her comeuppance draws near, the foreman of the jury "Weldon" (OP Heggie) is being solicited to try and stop the execution. Quite what he was supposed to do is an ... yones guess, and so justice takes it's course. The plot, somewhat glacially, now moves on to a woman "Stella" (Sidney Fox) finding herself in a very similar situation - pleading a defence of crime passionnel. Guess what, though... she is the daughter of the aforementioned jury foreman. She has been charged with killing the rather unsavoury "Gar Boni" (Humphrey Bogart). Can she escape the same fate? The dialogue is delivered as if each were being individually cued, and despite his billing Bogart features hardly at all in what is otherwise a rather weakly directed and presented sob story in which I had no investment. Early talkie maybe, but all in all it's pretty unremarkable stuff.