Midnight

Midnight

One woman was to die at midnight!...another woman was to kill at the same hour...why?

193476 min4.9 / 10

A dark pre-code melodrama about guilt, justice, and sacrifice, where a daughter's confession threatens to overturn an execution and expose her father's role in condemning an innocent woman.

Jury foreman Edward Weldon's questioning leads to the death sentence for Ethel Saxon. His daughter Stella claims to have killed her lover, the gangster Garboni, just as Saxon was to sit in the electric chair.

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