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Half Past Midnight(1948)
Status: Released
Date: 1948-03-01
60%
1 Votes
Time: 1h 9m
You have a date...with DANGER, MURDER and ROMANCE!
Overview:
A detective encounters a woman in a nightclub. He finds that she is being blackmailed by a dancer who is murdered that very night. Of course, the woman becomes the main suspect. She and the gumshoe team up and begin searching for the real killer.
Languages: English.
Countries:
United States of America
ProductionCompanies:
Sol M. Wurtzel Productions
Movie: Half Past Midnight
Top 10 Billed Cast
Kent Taylor
Wade Hamilton
Peggy Knudsen
Sally Ferris, alias Sally Parker
Joe Sawyer
Det. Lt. Joe Nash
Walter Sande
Det. Lt. MacDonald
Martin Kosleck
Cortez
Mabel Paige
Hester Thornwall
Gil Stratton
Chick Patrick
Damian O'Flynn
Murray Evans
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