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Midnight Menace (1937)

Midnight Menace poster
Directed by
Sinclair Hill
Genre
thriller film
Country
United Kingdom
Runtime
1h 19m
Rating
7.4 of 10 from 4 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

An international arms company plots to bomb London and start a war in Europe. A group of people try to stop them.

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What happens

Midnight Menace (also known as Midnight Special; U.S. title: Bombs Over London) is a 1937 British thriller film directed by Sinclair Hill and starring Charles Farrell, Margaret Vyner, Fritz Kortner and Danny Green. It was written by G.H. Moresby-White from a story by Roger MacDougall and Alexander Mackendrick and concerns an international arms manufacturing firm's plans to start a war in Europe by bombing London. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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