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Directed by Arthur Hoerl Distributed by State Rights Director Arthur Hoerl Written by Arthur Hoerl | 5.3/10 IMDb Edited by Joseph Silverstein Initial release 1933 Produced by Robert Mintz | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Based on Before Morning
by Edward and Edna Riley Starring Leo Carrillo
Lora Baxter
Taylor Holmes Production
company Stage and Screen Productions, Inc. Cast Leo Carrillo, Taylor Holmes Cinematography Frank Zucker, Walter Strenge Similar The Unguarded Hour, Cosmo Jones - Crime Sm, London by Night, Dangerous Crossing, Phantom Killer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Before Morning is a 1933 American Pre-Code crime drama directed by Arthur Hoerl, and starring Leo Carrillo, Lora Baxter, and Taylor Holmes. The film was adapted for the screen by Arthur Hoerl, from the 1933 Broadway play of the same name by Edward and Edna Riley.
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Before morning 1933
Synopsis
Actress Elsie Manning (Lora Baxter) is engaged to Horace Baker (Blaine Cordner), but has also been in a romantic relationship with James Nichols (Russell Hicks) who has named her as the beneficiary in his will. Not knowing about her engagement, Nichols asks his wife for a divorce and is refused. Nichols dies in Manning's apartment after she tells him she's engaged to Baker. When Baker arrives on the scene, he agrees to help her dispose of the body by having Nichols moved to a sanitarium. The owner, Dr. Gruelle (Leo Carrillo), tells them Nichols was murdered by poison and attempts to extort money from Manning for his statement that the death was of natural causes. Gruell tries the same scam on the widow of Nichols (Louise Prussing), who eventually agrees when the poison is found in her purse. It is revealed that Gruell is really a corrupt police inspector named Mr. Maitland.