Broadway After Midnight

To protect her brother, a nightclub entertainer Queenie Morgan marries a gangster. She bears a resemblance to a society girl who has gotten involved with the underworld and wound up shooting her gangster boyfriend, and the gang forces Queenie to impersonate the woman in order to extort money from her wealthy parents. Unfortunately the society girl is killed by the gang, and the police arrest Queenie for the murders of both the society girl and her boyfriend.

Cast

Matthew Betz

as Quill Burke

Priscilla Bonner

as Queenie Morgan / Gloria Livingston

Cullen Landis

as Jimmy Crestmore

Gareth Hughes

as Billy Morgan

Ernest Hilliard

as Bodo Lambert

Barbara Tennant

as

William H. Turner

as

Hank Mann

as

Paul Weigel

as

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