Louis Hayward

Eric Linden

J. C. Nugent

Barbara Read

Irving Bacon

Robert Greig

Pierre Watkin

Sheila Bromley

Paul Everton

Nana Bryant

Joseph Crehan

Selmer Jackson

Jan Duggan

Polly Bailey

Aileen Carlyle

Billy Engle

Matty Fain

Allen Fox

Charley Foy

Jack Gardner

Fay Helm

Kenner G. Kemp

Rex Lease

Ethelreda Leopold

Alexander Leftwich

Jimmie Lucas

Charles Murphy

Ted Osborne

Lee Phelps

Ruth Robinson

Charles Sullivan

Guy Usher

Billy Wayne

Eric Wilton

Arthur Lubin

George Waggner

Lester Cole

Channing Pollock

Trem Carr

Paul Malvern

Milton Krasner

Bernard W. Burton

Jack Otterson

Richard H. Riedel

Jesse Bastian

Bernard B. Brown

Charles Previn

Crime

Comedy

Romance

Midnight Intruder

Universal Pictures

United States of America

CinemaSerf

"Resting" actor, Louis Hayward ("Barry") and his pal "Doc" (J.C. Nugent) are a bit down on their luck when they take shelter in a big house one rainy night. About to leave the next morning, they are spotted by staff who mistake him for the long-absent son of the house, and when he finds a letter from his "assumed" mother (Nana Bryant) containing $500, they decide to string out their new existence for a while... Snag is, the real "Reitter" (Eric Linden) turns up, shortly afterwards - in jail accused of murder. A sense of decency overwhelms the young man and he sets out to prove his double's innocence. It's a bit far fetched, but Hayward is on good form and the pace is quick, humorous at times and there's even a bit of romance for the star with Barbara Read ("Patricia"). There are too many characters in this film, they over-complicate what is essentially a rather simple, engaging whodunit a bit - but it's still a decent, suspenseful, adaptation of the Pollock novel that passes the time well for 70 minutes.

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