Midnight Club (1933)

Elegant Colin Grant and his associates are successful jewelry thieves, even unmasked to their victims, their perfect alibis making impossible for the Comissioner police to arrest them. ... See full summary »

Directors:

Alexander Hall, George Somnes

Writers:

Leslie Charteris (screenplay), Seton I. Miller (screenplay)

Stars:

Clive Brook, George Raft, Helen Vinson

Cast

Cast overview:
Clive Brook	...	Colin Grant
George Raft	...	Nick Mason
Helen Vinson	...	Iris Whitney
Alison Skipworth	...	Lady Barrett-Smythe
Guy Standing	...	Commissioner Hope (as Sir Guy Standing)
Alan Mowbray	...	Arthur Bradley
Ferdinand Gottschalk	...	George Rubens
Forrester Harvey	...	Thomas Roberts
Ethel Griffies	...	The Duchess

Storyline

Elegant Colin Grant and his associates are successful jewelry thieves, even unmasked to their victims, their perfect alibis making impossible for the Comissioner police to arrest them. Things are running smoothly until Nick Mason enters the scene -and flirts with Colin's love interest.

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Taglines:

A Gentleman of Polite Society...A Figure of the Shadow World...Risking Lives for Loot and love! (Print Ad- Oakland tribune,((Oakland, Calif.)) 28 January 1934)

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Genres:

Crime | Drama

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Did You Know?

Trivia

One of over 700 Paramount Productions, filmed between 1929 and 1949, which were sold to MCA/Universal in 1958 for television distribution, and have been owned and controlled by Universal ever since.

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Quotes

Nick Mason: You forgot your dress. You wouldn't want to compromise me, would you?

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Soundtracks

In a Midnight Club
(uncredited)
Music by Ralph Rainger
Lyrics by Leo Robin

User Reviews

If Raffles had a club it would be The Midnight Club.

Midnight Club is a place where British elite meet to eat and socialize otherwise. It's also the place where Clive Brook, a Raffles type character meets with his gang also of similar class stature, Ferdinand Gottschalk, Alan Mowbray, and the gang's alluring come-on Helen Vinson. She sure gives George Raft the come-on and how he comes.

Scotland Yard Inspector Sir Guy Standing is tearing the hair out of his head trying to catch Brook and his gang from pulling off a lot of society robberies of jewels and whatever else they can lay their hands. These people are upper crust with influence so Standing knows he has to catch them red handed.

And this is where American detective George Raft enters the picture. He's been brought over by Standing to go undercover as an American crook who's after the same scores that Brook is and then infiltrate the gang.

Alison Skipworth and Ethel Griffies play a pair of Brook's robbery victims and Skipworth does it in grand style. She'd actually give up her jewels quite willingly for a night with Brook whom she eyes like a prime cut at a butcher's shop.

As for Raft being an American detective is a role he fits comfortably into and does a good job. Vinson who is usually the man stealing other woman has both Brook and Raft interested in here and her part is a change for her.

Probably with a bit more character development we could get an updated version of the Midnight Club. It holds up well and even today's audiences would enjoy it.If

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

29 July 1933 (USA)

Also Known As:

Club de Minuit

Filming Locations:

Paramount Studios - 5555 Melrose Avenue, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA

Company Credits

Production Co:

Paramount Pictures

Technical Specs

Runtime:

64 min

Sound Mix:

Mono (Western Electric Noiseless Recording)

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1