Midnight Phantom (1935) CRIME THRILLER

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  • เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 มิ.ย. 2013
  • 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.
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  • @danielwegrzynek494
    @danielwegrzynek494 ปีที่แล้ว +9

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    @wilde4445 9 ปีที่แล้ว +19

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

  • @littlelamb56
    @littlelamb56 5 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    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!"

  • @thomasknight1190
    @thomasknight1190 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

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

  • @blancatirado576
    @blancatirado576 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Enjoyed this movie thanks for posting

  • @keithharvey7230
    @keithharvey7230 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

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

  • @penniep8332
    @penniep8332 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

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

    • @leelarson107
      @leelarson107 3 ปีที่แล้ว

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

  • @nancymills1884
    @nancymills1884 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

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

  • @kenzeetwo
    @kenzeetwo 5 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    This is more of a comedy then a crime thriller.

    • @leelarson107
      @leelarson107 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Only if you're expecting it to be one.

  • @richardw3470
    @richardw3470 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

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

    • @leelarson107
      @leelarson107 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Naively hilarious? Isn't that abrostructurally nonperspicaious?

    • @geezergeezer1
      @geezergeezer1 ปีที่แล้ว

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

    • @robertwalker5521
      @robertwalker5521 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

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

  • @andydaddy2009
    @andydaddy2009 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    THAT WINDOW IS HUGE ... love the cars

  • @johnrohde5510
    @johnrohde5510 6 ปีที่แล้ว +12

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

  • @waderaney7
    @waderaney7 6 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    A great movie !

  • @kathleenmckeithen118
    @kathleenmckeithen118 ปีที่แล้ว +2

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

  • @carolleenkelmann3829
    @carolleenkelmann3829 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

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

  • @yiquanawalkb4run26
    @yiquanawalkb4run26 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

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

  • @SuperIliad
    @SuperIliad 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    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.

  • @flapjackfae
    @flapjackfae ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Police chief sure has some high class digs.

  • @geraldinekearney542
    @geraldinekearney542 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Great movie, thanks for sharing

  • @blancatirado576
    @blancatirado576 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

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

    • @leelarson107
      @leelarson107 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Women's ingenuity.

    • @robertwalker5521
      @robertwalker5521 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      The other was under her dress, of course.

  • @duantorruellas716
    @duantorruellas716 7 ปีที่แล้ว +13

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

  • @lesterbiggins3772
    @lesterbiggins3772 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Loved it x

  • @cclyon
    @cclyon 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

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

    • @-oiiio-3993
      @-oiiio-3993 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      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
      @leelarson107 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@-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
    @randywiggins1248 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    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.

  • @DateTwoRelate
    @DateTwoRelate 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    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!

  • @leelarson107
    @leelarson107 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

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

  • @geoffdevore6321
    @geoffdevore6321 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Thanks for movie! Good movie!

  • @fredneecher1746
    @fredneecher1746 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Sounds like they only just learned their lines.

  • @leilal8053
    @leilal8053 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    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
      @robertwalker5521 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      She looks like a "hottie" to me.

  • @johncrucchiola5779
    @johncrucchiola5779 9 ปีที่แล้ว +14

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

    • @TheNeverposts
      @TheNeverposts 9 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      yeh... this is remarkably awful

    • @johnstatser7088
      @johnstatser7088 7 ปีที่แล้ว +6

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

    • @barbaracrickley6191
      @barbaracrickley6191 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      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
      @alphonsozorro7952 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@TheNeverposts Wrong perception!

    • @alphonsozorro7952
      @alphonsozorro7952 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Wrong perception!

  • @vernalc2449
    @vernalc2449 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    That was fun! Good movie @PizzaFlix

  • @soninoscardelletti2844
    @soninoscardelletti2844 ปีที่แล้ว

    I like Reginald Denny. God Bless

    • @robertwalker5521
      @robertwalker5521 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

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

  • @amirharris473
    @amirharris473 9 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    Chief ain't playing, now get your Azzes out there and do your damn job!

  • @retrojoe1590
    @retrojoe1590 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

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

    • @dubsydubs5234
      @dubsydubs5234 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

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

    • @leelarson107
      @leelarson107 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      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
      @user-bs1mg9ww5y 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ...yeah,I noticed that bag too 🤔...

  • @Jhangchangbong
    @Jhangchangbong 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    고전찬미 감사합니다

  • @DateTwoRelate
    @DateTwoRelate 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

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

    • @denisejohnson2960
      @denisejohnson2960 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

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

  • @DavidSmith-sb2ix
    @DavidSmith-sb2ix 5 ปีที่แล้ว +20

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

    • @Catquick1957
      @Catquick1957 5 ปีที่แล้ว +10

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

    • @zeehag
      @zeehag 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @Marjo exactly thanks to last administration

    • @scotnick59
      @scotnick59 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

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

    • @michealridenoour5320
      @michealridenoour5320 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Did not say White he said quite!

    • @doomo
      @doomo 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

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

  • @Catquick1957
    @Catquick1957 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

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

    • @leelarson107
      @leelarson107 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

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

  • @scallopohare9431
    @scallopohare9431 ปีที่แล้ว

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

  • @Oldeagle66
    @Oldeagle66 หลายเดือนก่อน

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

  • @thejerseyj5479
    @thejerseyj5479 ปีที่แล้ว

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

  • @keithharvey7230
    @keithharvey7230 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    26 mins the size of that room!

  • @richardw3470
    @richardw3470 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    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!

  • @donaldleroy6502
    @donaldleroy6502 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    This was pretty 😎

  • @Riker-ER
    @Riker-ER 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    nothing to do with MIDNIGHT or PHANTOM

    • @leelarson107
      @leelarson107 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Figures of speech. Nothing to lose your lunch over.

  • @scarygary-qq1pj
    @scarygary-qq1pj 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

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

  • @dubsydubs5234
    @dubsydubs5234 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    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
      @leelarson107 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

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

    • @dubsydubs5234
      @dubsydubs5234 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@leelarson107 No argument on that one.

    • @keithharvey6354
      @keithharvey6354 3 ปีที่แล้ว

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

  • @mikestropki5683
    @mikestropki5683 ปีที่แล้ว

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

  • @naguerea
    @naguerea 4 ปีที่แล้ว

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

    • @michealridenoour5320
      @michealridenoour5320 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      You missed a good one

    • @-oiiio-3993
      @-oiiio-3993 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Comments to die for?

    • @leelarson107
      @leelarson107 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      You will be remembered by the living.

    • @keithharvey6354
      @keithharvey6354 3 ปีที่แล้ว

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

    • @robertwalker5521
      @robertwalker5521 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

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

  • @johnstatser7088
    @johnstatser7088 7 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    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
      @MrLyndarenaud 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

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

    • @Catquick1957
      @Catquick1957 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      More devious too. Eve

    • @alphonsozorro7952
      @alphonsozorro7952 4 ปีที่แล้ว

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

    • @alphonsozorro7952
      @alphonsozorro7952 4 ปีที่แล้ว

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

    • @robertwalker5521
      @robertwalker5521 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      That gay guy assigned himself as a phantom

  • @jackiemarini3203
    @jackiemarini3203 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I can't believe thats a woman . 😱

    • @leelarson107
      @leelarson107 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

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

  • @DarkoP9.13
    @DarkoP9.13 5 ปีที่แล้ว

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

    • @leelarson107
      @leelarson107 3 ปีที่แล้ว

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

    • @keithharvey6354
      @keithharvey6354 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Bohemian Rhapsody.

    • @robertwalker5521
      @robertwalker5521 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Camptown Races, I'm sure.

  • @missmaggie2620
    @missmaggie2620 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Wow, early profiling.

  • @geoffreypiltz271
    @geoffreypiltz271 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Feeble ending.

  • @SueEmmDee
    @SueEmmDee 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Wrongly titled.

  • @jamiesmainchannel4
    @jamiesmainchannel4 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

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

  • @bethparker1500
    @bethparker1500 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Women kill crudely . Hmmm

    • @leelarson107
      @leelarson107 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      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
      @robertwalker5521 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

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

  • @theuploder8424
    @theuploder8424 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    49:17

  • @marb7405
    @marb7405 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    LOL 35:46 and them sat women talk too much

  • @luckybaring3907
    @luckybaring3907 ปีที่แล้ว

    ☆☆☆☆☆

  • @pravinasings8098
    @pravinasings8098 3 ปีที่แล้ว

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

    • @leelarson107
      @leelarson107 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Profiling exists because profiling works.

  • @dicktrashy8934
    @dicktrashy8934 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Mentalist of 35'