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Midnight Phantom (1935)

NR Nov 26, 1935 Mystery 1h 3m
User Score
48%
8 votes
Internet Movie Database
45%

AN UNSEEN HAND SPREADING TERROR

Overview

A newly hired police chief vows to clean up a notoriously corrupt police department. When he is murdered, investigators find that there is no shortage of suspects, most of them being fellow cops.

Bernard B. Ray
Director
John T. Neville
Story

Top Billed Cast

Reginald Denny
Reginald Denny

Prof. David Graham
Lloyd Hughes
Lloyd Hughes

Lieut. Dan Burke
Claudia Dell
Claudia Dell

Diana Sullivan
Jim Farley
Jim Farley

Chief James A. Sullivan
John Elliott
John Elliott

Capt. Bill Withers
Barbara Bedford
Barbara Bedford

Kathleen Ryan
Mary Foy
Mary Foy

Mary Ryan
Francis Sayles
Francis Sayles

Police Surgeon Kelly
Al St. John
Al St. John

Radio Officer Jones

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A review by CinemaSerf
Written on June 19, 2022

This is certainly one of the thinner stories to feature Reginald Denny in one of his sleuthing roles. This time "Prof. Graham" must get to the bottom of the killing of a newly appointed police chief who had just set about tackling the corruption amongst his own. There are no shortage of suspects for the crime - it appears that many of the officers had an axe to grind - but together with Claudia Dell's "Diana" he soldiers on. The title does it some favours - it suggests an intrigue or a mystery that the film simply doesn't deliver, but although I still quite enjoyed this simple story, it's really all pretty slow, stage-bound and forgettable....

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