Midnight Phantom (1935) CRIME THRILLER

Stars: Reginald Denny, Claudia Dell, Lloyd Hughes
Director: Bernard B. Ray
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.

[@danielwegrzynek494]

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me too.. such a decent era

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[@wilde4445]

80 years ago, amazing! Thank you PF....

[@mrmongo99]

Pi

[@littlelamb56]

What a fantastically strange movie! Loved it for all sorts of reasons including its "anthropological" interest -- in unwittingly documenting the mindset of a very strange tribe indeed at a particular moment in time when the "phrenological" approach to determining criminal character was still considered a cutting-edge science. My favorite line in the movie so far: "Shut up! I'll take charge of this. If I don't find the killer in ten minutes I'll subject everyone in this room to an interrogation that will make the third degree look like a petting party!" Also, "Calm down. This crime must be solved scientifically" to which the reply was "Science can go take a jump at itself!"

[@lorrainem8234]

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[@blancatirado576]

Enjoyed this movie thanks for posting

[@thomasknight1190]

This is the second time I have watched this film and I still enjoyed it of course I knew who did it

[@penniep8332]

I would love some of those furniture pieces in that room, especially the one to the left hand corner.

[@leelarson107]

Oh, I agree with that. I have two rooms full of 1870's Victorian furniture, and they make for a great interior.

[@keithharvey7230]

Reginald Denny was the Englishman on the train in Cat Ballou.

[@nancymills1884]

Thank you for these wonderful movies. I’m spending enjoyable evenings with these great movies.

[@kenzeetwo]

This is more of a comedy then a crime thriller.

[@leelarson107]

Only if you're expecting it to be one.

[@andydaddy2009]

THAT WINDOW IS HUGE ... love the cars

[@johnrohde5510]

Al "Fuzzy" St John as radio operator, before he grew his trademark whiskers.

[@kathleenmckeithen118]

Great story and love the ending! Thank you, Pizza!!!

[@yiquanawalkb4run26]

thank you, that was such a rarity, it made me laugh so much, it had a lovey Irish ring to it

[@waderaney7]

A great movie !

[@richardw3470]

Naively hilarious. And, Pliny Goodfellow! Did his father teach history at Oxford? Love these old movies. Thanks awfully.

[@leelarson107]

Naively hilarious? Isn't that abrostructurally nonperspicaious?

[@geezergeezer1]

@@leelarson107 I can tell from your verbiage that actually YOU dunnit!

[@robertwalker5521]

The internet should have a three-syllable- per-word limit .

[@carolleenkelmann3829]

Love the opening scenes and the accompanying Musik , better than the ride of the Valkyrie. All too short.

[@SuperIliad]

Midnight Phantom, released 27 November 1935 (USA). Reginald Denny as Prof. David Graham; Claudia Dell as Diana Sullivan; Lloyd Hughes as Lieut. Dan Burke; Jim Farley (as James Farley) as Chief James A. Sullivan; Barbara Bedford as Kathleen Ryan; Mary Foy as Mary Ryan; John Elliott, Capt. Bill Withers; Francis Sayles as Police Surgeon Kelly; Al St. John as Radio Officer Jones; Henry Roquemore as Dr. McNeil; Lee Prather as Capt. Perkins; Robert Walker as Capt. Jim Phillips; Jack Kenney as (as Jack Kenny) Inspector Silverstein; Eddie Davis, Conman in Showup Room; Arthur Thalasso, Police Officer; Harley Wood as Mary Withers.

[@geraldinekearney542]

Great movie, thanks for sharing

[@lesterbiggins3772]

Loved it x

[@duantorruellas716]

talkin bout the midnight phantom , and everybody got to go.

[@blancatirado576]

In the last scene she is carrying one pillow to the picnic, then each of them are sitting in 2 different pillows😯😀

[@leelarson107]

Women's ingenuity.

[@robertwalker5521]

The other was under her dress, of course.

[@flapjackfae]

Police chief sure has some high class digs.

[@cclyon]

I've met snakes more sympathetic than that Diana. I only watched the whole movie for Reginald Denny.

[@-oiiio-3993]

Reginald Denny conceived , designed, and built the first radio controlled military drone aircraft. It was at his Radioplane manufacturing plant that young Norma Jean Dougherty (AKA Marilyn Monroe) had her first published photo session when Denny's friend Ronald Reagan, then a Lieutenant of the United States Army Air Forces (public relations) 1st Motion Picture Unit, sent a Yank Magazine photographer to Radioplane for a story in 1944. www.historynet.com/drones-hollywood-connection.htm aviationoiloutlet.com/blog/marilyn-monroe-radioplane/

[@leelarson107]

@@-oiiio-3993 That's true about Denny. He was very productive during his various careers. And he basically carried the show. The others acted like they were doing forced labor.

[@randywiggins1248]

When the police chief told Finnegan to stand to make his hearing better when Finnegan spoke he sounded like Clancy O'Hara from Batman tv show.

[@geoffdevore6321]

Thanks for movie! Good movie!

[@DateTwoRelate]

At 10:15 "Inspector Silverstein" is about 2 steps away from breaking into a vaudeville routine. He apparently thought better of it. PS The strangest thing about this film is that it turns into a whodunit with only 12 minutes remaining! at 46:10 Reginald Denny flubs his line. Not to be outdone, Lloyd Hughes flubs his at 52:59. Retakes schmetakes!

[@mercureethepersonality4671]

Just Steve flubbed lines start around thirty minutes in...

[@fredneecher1746]

Sounds like they only just learned their lines.

[@leilal8053]

The mother of the secretary is like a caricature of the old Soviet chief of the female agents in the old spy 🎬 movies. I thought she was a man when she was listening outside the 🚪 door! Can you imagine her as a mother-in-law??? ..SCARY! 😁🤭☺

[@robertwalker5521]

She looks like a "hottie" to me.

[@leelarson107]

The acting is a bit wooden, but overall it makes for a good story and a good presentation.

[@vernalc2449]

That was fun! Good movie @PizzaFlix

[@johncrucchiola5779]

Man,she hardly batted an eye when her dad got killed.

[@TheNeverposts]

yeh... this is remarkably awful

[@johnstatser7088]

John Crucchiola She fainted,that's more than a batted eye. Then she had to solve the crime.

[@barbaracrickley6191]

Is she American trying to sound British, or is she British trying to sound American,? "I know how you feel dawling" She's got a strange way of talking.

[@alphonsozorro7952]

@@TheNeverposts Wrong perception!

[@alphonsozorro7952]

Wrong perception!

[@DavidSmith-sb2ix]

"You've been pretty white about this situation." You won't hear that in the movies today.

[@Catquick1957]

That's mighty white of you to say so. It was in a Dirty Harry movie. The one with Tyne Daly

[@zeehag]

@Marjo exactly thanks to last administration

[@scotnick59]

You don't hear that on the *street* today...

[@michealridenoour5320]

Did not say White he said quite!

[@doomo]

@@zeehag sounds like you are late for your Klan meeting.

[@soninoscardelletti2844]

I like Reginald Denny. God Bless

[@robertwalker5521]

He had about a 150 I.Q....and a couple of patents in his name.

[@Jhangchangbong]

고전찬미 감사합니다

[@Catquick1957]

39:10....Oh, no! Now that's a mother in law

[@leelarson107]

You never know about such things. My ex-mother-in-law was a nicer person than my ex-wife.

[@Oldeagle66]

I'll watch these old movies any day over the new garbage.

[@scallopohare9431]

Gosh, the professor took the engagement really well. Hmm.

[@retrojoe1590]

At 21:01 Was that a plastic bag in the road? Didn't think they had plastic bags back then.

[@dubsydubs5234]

I thought it was a hat blown off during the super high speed chase.

[@leelarson107]

Plastic bags weren't invented until 1965. What you saw was a newspaper advertising 'Throckmorton & Vanderbilt's Department Store in beautiful downtown Burbank', offering a 5% discount to the first 100 customers and asking everyone to use the parking lot across the street.'

[@user-bs1mg9ww5y]

...yeah,I noticed that bag too 🤔...

[@keithharvey7230]

26 mins the size of that room!

[@donaldleroy6502]

This was pretty 😎

[@DateTwoRelate]

At 11:17 listen for director instructing "call Silverstein." Why was this film made?

[@denisejohnson2960]

You are right, I do hear the director calling instructions.

[@thejerseyj5479]

I wonder if the opening shot was Detroit, There was a marquis of the Hotel Cadillac.

[@richardw3470]

Oops, my mistake. Goodfriend not Goodfellow--but they're both old English names. And, like one of my ancestors they're also translated from a continental name. This chap was a well known movie photographer and an actor from ND!

[@keithharvey6354]

North Devon?

[@scarygary-qq1pj]

I knew this was going to be a good movie when I saw that it was approved with certificate #1667.🙄

[@Riker-ER]

nothing to do with MIDNIGHT or PHANTOM

[@leelarson107]

Figures of speech. Nothing to lose your lunch over.

[@mikestropki5683]

Entertaining without millions of dollars of explosions, killings, explicit sex.

[@missmaggie2620]

Wow, early profiling.

[@dubsydubs5234]

That was the worst best movie, or is it the best worst movie, eitherway it was very weird. Not sure who came up with the plot line but I'm assuming he didn't get paid much.

[@leelarson107]

We have blockbuster movies today with astronomical budgets that aren't anywhere as good.

[@dubsydubs5234]

@@leelarson107 No argument on that one.

[@keithharvey6354]

@@leelarson107 And boring special effects,you said it!

[@naguerea]

I have just read the first ten comments, and in the light of that, I will pass on.

[@michealridenoour5320]

You missed a good one

[@-oiiio-3993]

Comments to die for?

[@leelarson107]

You will be remembered by the living.

[@keithharvey6354]

You will be missed by many i.e. Mick and Audrey and their dog Colin.

[@robertwalker5521]

​@@leelarson107 Not me! I've forgotten w hatchacallit's name already

[@DarkoP9.13]

Any one know what music she is playing @24:26

[@leelarson107]

Sounds like something of an Austrian origin. That's just a guess.

[@keithharvey6354]

Bohemian Rhapsody.

[@robertwalker5521]

Camptown Races, I'm sure.

[@geoffreypiltz271]

Feeble ending.

[@jackiemarini3203]

I can't believe thats a woman . 😱

[@leelarson107]

I trust you mean "Mary Ryan', the old hag in the police uniform. Yeah, that was gruesome.

[@johnstatser7088]

how'd ja like to be an actor that fits the "physical type" of a heinous criminal? that smart alecky, smug con man didn't look like he could fool anyone. Women are not expert enuff to commit such a crime?At the end the loving husband makes his wife hobble across a lawn in heels. In 1935 it was illegal for married couples to kiss in public. Where was the phantom?

[@MrLyndarenaud]

Now, I see why you added that about the kissing!

[@Catquick1957]

More devious too. Eve

[@alphonsozorro7952]

@Marjo Yeah, but for frivolous things like their looks.

[@alphonsozorro7952]

Since the 80's they can make out in their car in broad daylight. Never mind kissing.

[@robertwalker5521]

That gay guy assigned himself as a phantom

[@luckybaring3907]

☆☆☆☆☆

[@bethparker1500]

Women kill crudely . Hmmm

[@leelarson107]

Women don't mind. As long as they can hurt someone, that helps them deal with their own inner frustrations. *But it's all the fault of men, isn't it? Women demand power and authority, but they're loath to assume the responsibility that goes with it.

[@robertwalker5521]

The punctuate each worth...another.... stab. of. the. Knife

[@SueEmmDee]

Wrongly titled.

[@marb7405]

LOL 35:46 and them sat women talk too much

[@theuploder8424]

49:17

[@pravinasings8098]

Predictive profiling...tsk, tsk, tsk.👎

[@leelarson107]

Profiling exists because profiling works.

[@jamiesmainchannel4]

8:18, 9:28, 17:16, 33:11, 35:57, 40:39, 47:23, 56:30

[@dicktrashy8934]

Mentalist of 35'