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Midnight Manhunt

  • 1945
  • Approved
  • 1h 4m
IMDb RATING
5.3/10
448
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William Gargan, Ann Savage, George E. Stone, and George Zucco in Midnight Manhunt (1945)
ComedyCrimeMystery

In a cheap hotel room in New York City Jelke shoots gangster Joe Wells, takes a package from his pocket and flees.Wells staggers into an alley. On her way to her apartment above a wax museum... Read allIn a cheap hotel room in New York City Jelke shoots gangster Joe Wells, takes a package from his pocket and flees.Wells staggers into an alley. On her way to her apartment above a wax museum, Sue Gallagher, a reporter for the Chronicle, finds Wells' body and hides his corpse amon... Read allIn a cheap hotel room in New York City Jelke shoots gangster Joe Wells, takes a package from his pocket and flees.Wells staggers into an alley. On her way to her apartment above a wax museum, Sue Gallagher, a reporter for the Chronicle, finds Wells' body and hides his corpse among the wax-figures in the museum and calls her paper to send a photographer so she can get ... Read all

  • Director
    • William C. Thomas
  • Writer
    • David Lang
  • Stars
    • William Gargan
    • Ann Savage
    • Leo Gorcey
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  • IMDb RATING
    5.3/10
    448
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • William C. Thomas
    • Writer
      • David Lang
    • Stars
      • William Gargan
      • Ann Savage
      • Leo Gorcey
    • 28User reviews
    • 7Critic reviews
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    William Gargan and George Zucco in Midnight Manhunt (1945)
    Leo Gorcey, Charles Halton, Ann Savage, and George Zucco in Midnight Manhunt (1945)
    William Gargan, Ann Savage, and George Zucco in Midnight Manhunt (1945)
    William Gargan and Ann Savage in Midnight Manhunt (1945)
    Ann Savage and George Zucco in Midnight Manhunt (1945)
    Leo Gorcey and Charles Halton in Midnight Manhunt (1945)
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    William Gargan in Midnight Manhunt (1945)
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    William Gargan, Ann Savage, and George Zucco in Midnight Manhunt (1945)
    William Gargan, Charles Halton, Ann Savage, and George Zucco in Midnight Manhunt (1945)

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    William Gargan
    William Gargan
    • Pete Willis
    Ann Savage
    Ann Savage
    • Sue Gallagher
    Leo Gorcey
    Leo Gorcey
    • Clutch Tracy
    George Zucco
    George Zucco
    • Jelke
    Paul Hurst
    Paul Hurst
    • Murphy
    Don Beddoe
    Don Beddoe
    • Detective Lt. Max Hurley
    Charles Halton
    Charles Halton
    • Henry Miggs
    George E. Stone
    George E. Stone
    • Joe Wells
    Robert Barron
    Robert Barron
    • Cop with Hurley
    • (uncredited)
    Martin Cichy
    Martin Cichy
    • Police Officer
    • (uncredited)
    Edgar Dearing
    Edgar Dearing
    • Police Desk Sergeant
    • (uncredited)
    Hazel Dohlman
    • Matron
    • (uncredited)
    Mike Donovan
    • Court Warden
    • (uncredited)
    Pat Gleason
    • Police Dispatcher
    • (uncredited)
    Paul Harvey
    Paul Harvey
    • Mr. McAndrews, Night Editor
    • (uncredited)
    George McKay
    • Monte, photographer
    • (uncredited)
    Bob Reeves
    Bob Reeves
    • Police Officer
    • (uncredited)
    Martin Strader
    • Cab Driver
    • (uncredited)
    • Director
      • William C. Thomas
    • Writer
      • David Lang
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    • Trivia
      The failure of the original copyright holder to renew the film's copyright resulted in it falling into public domain, meaning that virtually anyone could duplicate and sell a VHS/DVD copy of the film. Therefore, many of the versions of this film available on the market are either severely (and usually badly) edited and/or of extremely poor quality, having been duped from second- or third-generation (or more) copies of the film.
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      Henry Miggs: Miggs: I'm so tired!

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      Edited into Terror in the Pharaoh's Tomb (2007)

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    6/10
    Colorful characters liven standard missing-corpse plot
    Ann Savage and William Gargan star as rival newspaper reporters in this wild murder comedy complete with wax dummies, a wandering corpse, dumb cops, and George Zucco at his sinister best.

    Leo Gorcey is very funny as a helper and general chatterbox at the Last Gangster Wax Museum. He toys around with the electric chair exhibit and tosses off a fair number of Bowery Boys-style malapropisms ("It's an optical delusion").

    Zucco opens the picture by creeping into a hotel room, shooting a man and stealing a small case of diamonds; besides the mysterious Zucco and the adventurous reporters, police detectives Paul Hurst (dumb flatfoot) and Don Beddoe (harassed and exasperated lieutenant) are soon also attempting to track down the murdered man's body, which appears then disappears more than once.

    A silly subplot concerns Savage and Gargan—a onetime romantic couple for whom, as Gorcey puts it, "the milk of romance slightly curdled." Gargan persists in disrupting Savage's efforts toward solving the case and landing the big story, for reasons that are less than clear; their conflict is supposed to be cute but is instead mildly irritating.

    Overall, it's predictable but still very enjoyable; while the dialog may be lowbrow, it's still moderately clever, and good humor and energetic performances make up for lack of suspense and surprises. Good fun for fans of B movies—or any of these stars.
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    • Release date
      • July 27, 1945 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Languages
      • Spanish
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Cheeze It, Corpse
    • Production company
      • Pine-Thomas Productions
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 4 minutes
    • Color
      • Black and White
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.37 : 1

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