Before Morning

Before Morning is a 1933 American pre-Code crime drama directed by Arthur Hoerl, and starring Leo Carrillo, Lora Baxter, and Taylor Holmes. The film was adapted for the screen by Arthur Hoerl, from the 1933 Broadway play of the same name by Edward and Edna Riley.[1]

Before Morning
Film's lobby card
Directed byArthur Hoerl
Produced byRobert Mintz
Written byArthur Hoerl (adaptation)
Based onBefore Morning
by Edward and Edna Riley
StarringLeo Carrillo
Lora Baxter
Taylor Holmes
CinematographyFrank Zucker
Walter Strenge
Edited byJoseph Silverstein
Production
company
Stage and Screen Productions, Inc.
Distributed byState Rights
Release date
  • November 18, 1933 (1933-11-18)
Running time
56 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Synopsis

Actress Elsie Manning (Lora Baxter) is engaged to Horace Baker (Blaine Cordner), but has also been in a romantic relationship with James Nichols (Russell Hicks) who has named her as the beneficiary in his will. Not knowing about her engagement, Nichols asks his wife for a divorce and is refused. Nichols dies in Manning's apartment after she tells him she's engaged to Baker. When Baker arrives on the scene, he agrees to help her dispose of the body by having Nichols moved to a sanitarium. The owner, Dr. Gruelle (Leo Carrillo), tells them Nichols was murdered by poison and attempts to extort money from Manning for his statement that the death was of natural causes. Gruelle tries the same scam on the widow of Nichols (Louise Prussing), who eventually agrees when the poison is found in her purse. It is revealed that Gruelle is really a police inspector named Mr. Maitland intent on solving the murder.[2]

Cast
  • Leo Carrillo – Dr. Gruelle/Mr. Maitland
  • Lora Baxter as Elsie Manning
  • Taylor Holmes as Leo Bergman
  • Blaine Cordner as Horace Baker
  • Louise Prussing as Mrs. Nichols
  • Russell Hicks as James Nichols
  • Louis Jean Heydt as Neil Kennedy
  • Jules Epailly as Ben Ayoub
  • Constance Bertrand as Diane
  • Terry Carroll as Doris
  • Victor Kilian as House Detective (uncredited)

References
  1. Before Morning at the Internet Broadway Database
  2. "Before Morning". AFI Catalog of Feature Films. AFI. Retrieved July 20, 2015.
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