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Midnight Phantom (1935)

4.8 | Nov 26, 1935 (US) | Mystery | 01:03

AN UNSEEN HAND SPREADING TERROR

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.

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Reginald Denny
Prof. David Graham
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Lloyd Hughes
Lieut. Dan Burke
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Claudia Dell
Diana Sullivan
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Jim Farley
Chief James A. Sullivan
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John Elliott
Capt. Bill Withers
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Barbara Bedford
Kathleen Ryan
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Mary Foy
Mary Ryan
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Francis Sayles
Police Surgeon Kelly
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Al St. John
Radio Officer Jones

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CinemaSerf
5 | Jun 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.