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Midnight Life (1928)

Midnight Life poster
Directed by
Joseph C. Boyle, Scott R. Dunlap
Genre
silent film, mystery film
Country
United States
Runtime
50 min
Rating
7.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A man and a woman get tangled in a mystery based on a novel. The silent film follows their investigation into a web of secrets.

silent-eramysteriousstylizeddatedslow-pacedsuspensefulclassic

What happens

Midnight Life is a 1928 American silent mystery film produced by independent Gotham Company and distributed by B movie studio Lumas Films. The film is based on a novel, The Spider's Web, by Reginald Wright Kauffman. It was directed by Scott R. Dunlap and stars Francis X. Bushman and Gertrude Olmstead. This film is preserved at the Library of Congress. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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