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Midnight Episode (1950)

Midnight Episode poster
Directed by
Gordon Parry
Genre
thriller film
Country
United Kingdom
Runtime
1h 18m
Rating
8.0 of 10 from 2 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A street musician stumbles into a chain of events involving a missing cat and a valuable object. He must navigate a world of shady characters to clear his name.

suspensefulmysteriousnoirishurbantensegrittyclassic

What happens

Midnight Episode is a 1950 British thriller mystery film directed by Gordon Parry and starring Stanley Holloway, Leslie Dwyer, Reginald Tate and Meredith Edwards. The screenplay was by Paul Vincent Carroll, David Evans and William Templeton from an adaptation by Rita Barisse and Reeve Tyler of the 1938 novel Monsieur La Souris by Georges Simenon. The film was released in United States on 19 May 1955. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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