Midnight Shadow
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
George Randol
Frances Redd
Buck Woods
Richard Bates
Clinton Rosemond
Jesse Lee Brooks
Film Details
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Synopsis
Over her mother Emma's objections, Margaret Wilson, an impressionable small-town beauty, encourages the romantic interests of the refined Prince Alihabad and rejects her longtime admirer, the sincere but poor Buster Barnett. Unknown to Margaret, Alihabad is a charlatan from the vaudeville circuit, whose interest in the East Texas oil field that her father Dan has set aside for her wedding present appears to be more than passing. After Dan shows him where the oil land deed is kept, Alihabad asks Margaret to leave with him on an extended overseas trip. While Margaret debates and finally rejects Alihabad's dubious invitation, a man watches her house. Later the man breaks into the Wilsons' home and, after drugging Emma and Dan, steals the deed. Margaret discovers her father dead the next morning and telephones Ernest Lingley, whose bumbling son Jr. is an aspiring private detective. While Jr. and his equally ineffectual partner, Lightfoot, rush to the crime scene, homicide detective Sergeant Ramsey questions Buster, who casts suspicion on Alihabad. Ramsey, who has learned that Dan had contacted an oil developer in Shreveport, Louisiana, about his land, orders his men to locate Alihabad, Jr. and Lightfoot take off for Shreveport. There they inform John Mason, the oil company agent, to expect a man to approach him with the Wilson deed. Mason notifies the local police, while Jr. and Lightfoot cover the train depot. Later that night, the killer shows up at Mason's office, presents the stolen deed, then demands cash for it at knifepoint. At the same time, Jr. and Lightfoot, having spent the day in fruitless pursuit, return to Mason's office just in time to alert the police and apprehend the killer. The mystery of Dan's death solved, Ramsey then corners Alihabad, who reveals his fakery and loses Margaret to the deserving, faithful Buster.
Director
George Randol
Cast
Frances Redd
Buck Woods
Richard Bates
Clinton Rosemond
Jesse Lee Brooks
Edward Brandon
Ollie Ann Robinson
John Criner
Pete Webster
Ruby Dandridge
Napoleon Simpson
Crew
Film Details
Technical Specs
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Notes
Although the film's onscreen credits indicate that the film was copyrighted in 1939, it was not registered for copyright. The onscreen foreword of the film includes the following statement: "Here in certain communities, the life of which is found no where else in all the world, these people of darker hue have demonstrated their abilities in self-government by the orderly processes of law of which they are capable when unhampered by outside influences." A modern source states that the picture was filmed at International Studios, Hollywood.
