Midnight

Midnight

76 mins | Drama, Crime | March 7, 1934

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. Restoration by the Academy Film Archive and Blackhawk Films with funding from the estate of David Shepard from a 35mm nitrate duplicate negative and 35mm nitrate fine grain in the Lobster Films collection.

Midnight

76 mins | Drama, Crime | March 7, 1934

Midnight
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. Restoration by the Academy Film Archive and Blackhawk Films with funding from the estate of David Shepard from a 35mm nitrate duplicate negative and 35mm nitrate fine grain in the Lobster Films collection.
IMDb rating 5.5
Producers all star productions
Original title Midnight
Directors Chester Erskine
Writers Claire Sifton, Paul Sifton, Chester Erskine

Cast

Humphrey Bogart

as Gar Boni

Sidney Fox

as Stella Weldon

O. P. Heggie

as Edward Weldon

Henry Hull

as Nolan

Margaret Wycherly

as Mrs. Weldon

Lynne Overman

as Joe Biggers

Katherine Wilson

as Ada Biggers

Richard Whorf

as Arthur Weldon

Granville Bates

as Richard McGrath

Cora Witherspoon

as Elizabeth McGrath

Moffat Johnston

as District Attorney Plunkett

Henry O'Neill

as Edgar V. Ingersoll

Helen Flint

as Ethel Saxon