Midnight Warning (1932)
1932 · Feature film · 61 min · dir. Spencer Gordon Bennet
- Mystery
Synopsis
Guests at a luxury hotel are horrified when they witness a man literally "disappear into thin air." The vanished man's relatives hire a detective, who goes to the hotel to investigate the disappearance.
Synopsis from TMDb
Details
- Director
- Spencer Gordon Bennet
- Writer
- Norman Battle
- Studio
- George W. Weeks Productions
- Released
- 1932-11-15
- Running time
- 61 minutes
Cast & crew
Spencer Gordon Bennet Director
William 'Stage' Boyd
Claudia Dell
Huntley Gordon
John Harron
Hooper Atchley
Lloyd Whitlock
Phillips Smalley
Lloyd Ingraham
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★★ · The ear bone's connected to the… · picfixer · 2011-06-27
Off-beat variation on an old story which has since been redone many more times. The mystery opens with the discovery of a human "ear bone," and concludes with a startling bit of forensic misinformation. Less than thrilling, but the plot does go hilariously off the deep end with a whacky mortuary scene worth three stars for the wrong reasons. The mystery's physical explanation is utterly impossible. Stars William Boyd (not William "Hop-a-long" Boyd) as a lip-reading detective. The production values are adequate for the screenplay - the acting is not, and neither is the direction. Entertaining…
