Night Alarm (1934)
1934 · Feature film · 61 min · dir. Spencer Gordon Bennet
Greater in Theme-Drama and Spectacular Production Than All Other Fire Thrilles Combined!
- Romance
- Mystery
- Crime
Synopsis
A reporter itching to get off the boring gardening "beat" gets a chance to investigate a series of arson fires that have been plaguing the city. He believes the fires are tied into a web of political corruption involving a wealthy businessman, the mayor and the police chief. Complicatins ensue when the girl assigned to help him turns out to be the businessman's daughter.
Synopsis from OMDb
Details
- Director
- Spencer Gordon Bennet
- Writer
- Jack Stanley
- Composer
- Lee Zahler
- Cinematography
- James S. Brown Jr.
- Studio
- Majestic Pictures, Larry Darmour Productions
- Released
- 1934-12-10
- Running time
- 61 minutes
- Language
- English
- Collection
- Feature Films
Subjects on the Internet Archive
- drama
Cast & crew
Spencer Gordon Bennet Director
Bruce Cabot
Judith Allen
H.B. Warner
Sam Hardy
Betty Blythe- Tom Hanlon
Harry Holman
Harold Minjir
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★★★ · After his newspaper career, he went on to direct Harold and Maude · Spuzz · 2005-12-12
Sort of a mix between The Front Page and Backdraft, Night Alarm focuses on a reporter trying to break away from the gardening desk, to scoop a story about a series of Fires happening around the city. He blames it all on the big industrialist in the town whos got the mayor and the police captain in his back pocket. Things get even more interesting when the cute girl theyve hired to replace him in the gardening beat is actually the industrialists daughter. As the plot unravels, and more fires ensue, you can just imagine how the movie ends, with the industrialists daughter being caught…
★★★★ · Pretty good b-thriller · Blade_Runner · 2010-09-20
This movie is pretty good. It gets side tracked too many time from the mystery of who is the firebug. Too much romance plot and a really annoying musical number. Bruce Cabot is actually really good as the star reporter trying to track the firebug and romance a female co-worker. The scenes of the buildings burning is done really well. I think the cuts in this film are actually due to print damage and poor re-splicing. Otherwise a worthwhile film to see.
★★★★ · An Alarming good movie · Zee Zelot · 2013-03-10
But only 4 stars
★★★ · Yikes! · Dr Feel Rotten · 2010-11-12
Good guy gets the girl in the end? Who would have ever thought to stick that in a 30ish movie? How utterly unique.Why it's almost as unique as the gangster calling the leader "Hey Boss". OK, enough wisecracking.. Alexander Dexter is portrayed very poorly even though there is some good acting and the singing bit was nearly as bad. Either the director thought he was funny or he was sleeping with the producers daughter or something, but the singer has GOT to go. To bad he didn't get caught in the last big fire scene. What I want to know is why the dumb woman decided to keep climbing stairs in a…
★★★ · Of course! It's the weirdo seminsane foriegner! · uniQ · 2004-03-27
This is the stereotypical 'big evil dude controls everything BUT... The hero and his organization (Newsppr) BUT... hero loves evil dudes daughter. Evil dude uses daughter to manipulate hero, but evil dude gets his comeuppance in appropriate manner' film. The only problem is that the film is BADLY cut up in some areas, sigh... Whenever that happens I'm reminded of 'Murder on the Screen' And the arsonist who causes this mess? 'Alexander Dexter', some BLATANTLY foreign guy... Sigh. -uniQ
