The Crime at Midnight

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. Alternate language version of MIDNIGHT PHANTOM (1935)

Cast

Ramón Pereda

as David Graham

Adriana Lamar

as Diana Sullivan

Juan Torena

as Alberto Burke

José Luis Tortosa

as Chief James Sullivan

Aura de Silva

as Kate

Jaime Devesa

as Withers

Rosa Rey

as Señora Ryan

José Peña

as Doctor McNeill

Lucio Villegas

as Doctor Kelly

Carlos Montalbán

as Johnny

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