A Tragedy at Midnight

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A Tragedy at Midnight

1942

0h 53m

4.7(4 votes)

Comedy

Crime

Mystery

Thriller

Overview

The host of a whodunit radio show finds himself involved in his own mystery when he awakens to find a woman with a knife in her back in his bedroom.

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38 members

Acting

John Howard

Greg Sherman

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Margaret Lindsay

Beth Sherman

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Roscoe Karns

Cassidy

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Mona Barrie

Alta Wilton

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Keye Luke

Ah Foo

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Hobart Cavanaugh

Charles Miller

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Paul Harvey

Landeck

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Lilian Bond

Lola

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Miles Mander

Dr. Wilton

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William Newell

Swanson

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Wendell Niles

Show Announcer

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Archie Twitchell

Henry Carney

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Chester Clute

Pierre (uncredited)

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Minerva Urecal

Housekeeper (uncredited)

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Helena Phillips Evans

Beth's grandmother (uncredited)

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John Harmon

Pickpocket (uncredited)

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Jacqueline Dalya

Rita (uncredited)

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Vivien Oakland

First Mrs. Charles Miller (uncredited)

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Charles McAvoy

Second Charles Miller (uncredited)

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Marin Sais

Second Mrs. Charles Miller (uncredited)

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Theodore von Eltz

Third Charles Miller (uncredited)

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Janet Beecher

Third Mrs. Charles Miller (uncredited)

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Tristram Coffin

Landeck's Secretary (uncredited)

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Tim Ryan

Police Commissioner (uncredited)

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Dick Winslow

Orchestra Leader (uncredited)

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Noel Madison

Ricci (uncredited)

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Franco Corsaro

Renaldo (uncredited)

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Dorothy Gulliver

Miss Tindall (uncredited)

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Mady Lawrence

Miss Cornell (uncredited)

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Lester Dorr

Maxim's Headwaiter (uncredited)

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Herbert Evans

Maxim's Doorman (uncredited)

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Jack Kenney

Cab Driver (uncredited)

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Patricia Knox

Receptionist (uncredited)

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James C. Morton

Chubby Detective (uncredited)

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Matt Willis

Dumb Cop (uncredited)

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Bud Jamison

Cop (uncredited)

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George Magrill

Cop (uncredited)

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Ben Taggart

Cop (uncredited)

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