Murder at Midnight (a.k.a. The Monster KillsCatalog of Holdings The American Film Institute Collection and The United Artists Collection at The Library of Congress. (<-book title) p.122 c.1978 The American Film Institute)) is a 1931 American pre-Code murder mystery whodunnit directed by Frank R. Strayer.The AFI Catalog of Feature Films:..Murder at Midnight
Plot A murder during a game of charades at a society party leads the police to begin the hunt through the guest-list for a motive and culprit, involving a changed will and booby-trapped telephones. The killer strikes several more times to conceal his or her identity, until all is revealed.
Cast Aileen Pringle as Esme Kennedy Alice White as Millie Scripps Hale Hamilton as Phillip Montrose Robert Elliott as Inspector Taylor Clara Blandick as Aunt Julia Gray Kennedy Brandon Hurst as Lawrence Leslie Fenton as Walter Grayson William Humphrey as Colton Tyrell Davis as The Englishman Kenneth Thomson as Jim Kennedy Robert Ellis as Duncan Channing
Post production A film within a film with the same title, Murder at Midnight, and similar plot is featured in The Mirror Crack'd (1980).
Preservation status A print is preserved in the Library of Congress collection Packard Campus for Audio-Visual Conservation. A working/alternative title is The Monster Kills.Catalog of Holdings The American Film Institute Collection and The United Artists Collection at The Library of Congress. (<-book title) p.122 c.1978 The American Film Institute
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