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The Midnight Story is a 1957 American CinemaScope film noir crime film directed by Joseph Pevney and starring Tony Curtis, Marisa Pavan and Gilbert Roland. The film was originally slated to be titled The Eyes of Father Tomasino , after the 1955 Lux Video Theatre TV episode it was based on.
- Universal Pictures
- Robert Arthur
The Midnight Story: Directed by Joseph Pevney. With Tony Curtis, Marisa Pavan, Gilbert Roland, Jay C. Flippen. When a San Francisco priest is murdered, a policeman, who's a close friend, starts an investigation.
- (852)
- Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
- Joseph Pevney
- 1957-06-04
The Midnight Story was also a working title for a 1955 Universal film, The Price of Fear, but the two pictures are unrelated. According to contemporary news items, Mark Stevens Productions purchased the screen rights to Edwin Blum's unproduced script The Eyes of Father Tomasino in early August 1955 and announced that it would present the drama ...
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The Midnight Story is one of those movies that demonstrates that Curtis could really act. He always felt that he had the makings of a “real” actor, and a good one, but producers preferred not to take risks and kept casting him in lightweight rôles (which he happened to be very good at).
- 90 min
- 302
- Dancing Doris
The Midnight Story (AKA: Appointment With A Shadow) is directed by Joseph Pevney and written by Edwin Blum and John Robinson. It stars Tony Curtis, Marisa Pavan, Gilbert Roland and Jay C. Flippen. Music is by Joseph Gershenson and CinemaScope cinematography is by Russell Metty.
The Midnight Story. A San Francisco policeman (Tony Curtis) turns in his badge and moves in with a suspect (Gilbert Roland) in order to solve the murder of a priest.
