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Between Midnight and Dawn. Between Midnight and Dawn is a 1950 American film noir crime film directed by Gordon Douglas and starring Mark Stevens, Edmond O'Brien and Gale Storm. [1] It is notable as one of the earliest Hollywood policiers to focus on beat cops rather than detectives and other high-ranking officers.
- Mark Stevens
Mark Stevens (born Richard William Stevens; December 13,...
- Donald Buka
Early years. Buka was born on August 17, 1920, in Cleveland,...
- Gale Storm
Josephine Owaissa Cottle (April 5, 1922 – June 27, 2009),...
- Lora Lee Michel
Lora Lee Michel (born Virginia Joy Willeford, September 13,...
- Tito Vuolo
Tito Vuolo (22 March 1893 – 14 September 1962) was an...
- Mark Stevens
Between Midnight and Dawn: Directed by Gordon Douglas. With Mark Stevens, Edmond O'Brien, Gale Storm, Donald Buka. Prowl car cops on night duty romance a reluctant young woman who works for the department while in danger from a vengeful racketeer.
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- Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
- Gordon Douglas
- 1950-10
Between Midnight and Dawn is a 1950 American film noir crime film directed by Gordon Douglas and starring Mark Stevens, Edmond O'Brien and Gale Storm. It is notable as one of the earliest Hollywood policiers to focus on beat cops rather than detectives and other high-ranking officers.
Looking back at Between Midnight and Dawn, a 1950 crime drama of radio patrolmen and gangsters on the streets of Los Angeles, we would likely classify it as film noir.But that term was coined by French film critics in the late 1950s as they looked back at the dark strain of American crime pictures in the past decade.
- Gordon Douglas, James Nicholson
- Mark Stevens
Two big-city police officers, "Rocky" Barnes and Dan Purvis, war veterans and buddies, fall in love with the same girl, Kate Mallory, police secretary. She resists both, at first, but finally falls in love with Barnes. When he is killed the night before their wedding, by an escaped convict the two officers had captured, Ritchie Garris, Purvis ...
In the cop-crawling shadows of the city's darkest hours, Between Midnight and Dawn emerges as a 1950 American film noir crime saga, helmed by the masterful Gordon Douglas. With Mark Stevens, Edmond O'Brien, and Gale Storm leading the charge, this gritty tale plunges into the heart of urban turmoil, marking a significant departure from the ...
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Between Midnight and Dawn was released several months after the United States went to war again, in the Korean peninsula. There would have been a connection between an audience and the plot of the film, not because the characters were cops, but because the police were displaced soldiers, fighting, as the introduction says, “in a battlefield.”
