Midnight Manhunt (1945)

Comedy Crime Mystery

In a cheap hotel-room in New York City Jelke shoots gangster Joe Wells, takes a package from his pocket and flees.Wells staggers into an alley. On her way to her apartment above a wax museum, Sue Gallagher, a reporter for the Chronicle, finds Wells' body and hides his corpse among the wax-figures in the museum and calls her paper to send a photographer so she can get a scoop on the killing of Wells, who had a $5,000 reward for his capture, dead or alive. Meanwhile, Henry Miggs, the museum owner find the body and is ready to call the police but his handyman, Clutch Tracy tells him to conceal it and avoid suspicion. From this point on it is a game of where-is-the-body....and the stolen South American diamonds Wells was carrying.

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1945-07-27

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Runtime: 64 mins Rating: 4.2 Tag Line: A Weird, Whacky "Who-dun-it" in a Wax Museum!

Cast

Charles Halton

Atty. Clyde Perkins

George E. Stone

Joe Wells

Paul Hurst

Murphy

George Zucco

Jelke

Don Beddoe

Detective Lt. Max Hurley

Paul Harvey

Smiley Watson

Ann Savage

Sue Gallagher

Pat Gleason

Police Dispatcher (uncredited)

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