Midnight (1918 film)
1918 film by Ewald André Dupont
Midnight (German: Mitternacht) is a 1918 German silent crime film directed by Ewald André Dupont and starring Max Landa, Karl Beckersachs and Reinhold Schünzel.
Plot
Cast
Max Landa as Max, Detective
Karl Beckersachs as Donald Gordon (Kapitän)
Heinrich Peer as Dorian Morny (Graf)
Erich Rahn as Jiu-Jitsu-Meister
Reinhold Schünzel as Dick Tillinghaft (Reporter)
Adolf Paul as Alex Smirnow (Graf)
Wilhelm Diegelmann as Jimmy
Leopold von Ledebur as Präsident der Republik
Margarete Ferida as Helene Trevor (Frau)
Anneliese Halbe as Beatrice Trevor (Stieftochter)
Martin Lübbert as Alfred Clark (Trevors Sekretär
Maria Pospischil as Frau MacAllister
Eberhard Wrede as Kriminalkommissar
Hugo Werner-Kahle as Edmund Trevor
Olga Wojan
References
Bibliography
Bock, Hans-Michael & Bergfelder, Tim. The Concise CineGraph. Encyclopedia of German Cinema. Berghahn Books, 2009.
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