Midnight Phantom

Midnight Phantom

26/11/1935 1h 3m 4.8/10

Overview

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.

Director

Bernard B. Ray

Top Billed Cast

Lloyd Hughes

Lloyd Hughes

Lieut. Dan Burke

Reginald Denny

Reginald Denny

Prof. David Graham

Barbara Bedford

Barbara Bedford

Kathleen Ryan

Jim Farley

Jim Farley

Chief James A. Sullivan

Claudia Dell

Claudia Dell

Diana Sullivan

John Elliott

John Elliott

Capt. Bill Withers

Reviews

CinemaSerf

CinemaSerf

6/19/2022

5/10

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.

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