Incident at Midnight
6 /10 1 Votes
Director Norman Harrison Screenplay Arthur La Bern Language English | 6.1/10 IMDb Music director Bernard Ebbinghouse Duration Country United Kingdom | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Writer Edgar Wallace , Arthur La Bern Release date 1963 Cast Anton Diffring , William Sylvester , Justine Lord , Martin Miller , Tony Garnett , Warren Mitchell Similar movies 24 Hours in London (2000), The Flying Scot (1957), The Breaking Point (1961), A Time to Kill (1955), Fortune Is a Woman (1957) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Incident at Midnight is a 1963 British crime film directed by Norman Harrison and starring Anton Diffring, William Sylvester and Justine Lord. It was made at Merton Park Studios as part of the long-running series of Edgar Wallace adaptations; this being adapted from one of Wallace's short stories.
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Plot
Old Dr. Schroeder (Martin Miller), who has been struck off, attends a late night chemist every night for a prescription, and to observe Dr. Leichner (Anton Diffring), an ex-Nazi war criminal who has taken a new identity. Leichner, we discover, has a blonde wife (Sylva Langova), and a blonde mistress (Jacqueline Jones), who is blackmailing him. He is also involved in a drug scam involving two lockers and two keys, and aims to become a millionaire selling drugs. Meanwhile, a wounded bank robber has been taken to the dispensary for treatment, and to rendezvous with his gang leader. Old Dr. Schroeder finds himself attending to the robber's injuries.
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Critical reception
Sky Movies wrote that the "harsh black-and-white photography effectively catches the bleak, claustrophobic atmosphere of the all-night chemist's in which some of the drama is set"; while Leonard Maltin rated it two stars, calling it a "trim yarn."
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