"Behind-the-scenes story... as detectives trap killer inside San Francisco's Chinatown at Midnight!" 17 November 1949 Crime, Mystery 67 mins
A young man who steals valuable Oriental objects for a crooked antique dealer is hunted down by the police after his latest Chinatown robbery turns violent.
Watch the official Chinatown at Midnight 1949 trailer in HD below or find more Chinatown at Midnight videos on Vidimovie.
Hurd Hatfield as Clifford Ward
Jean Willes as Alice
Tom Powers as Captain Howard Brown
Ray Walker as Sam Costa
Charles Russell as Fred Morgan
Jacqueline deWit as Lisa Marcel (as Jacqueline DeWit)
Maylia Fong as Hazel Fong
Byron Foulger as Greer Pharmacy Druggist
Ross Elliott as Eddie Marsh
Benson Fong as Joe Wing
Barbara Jean Wong as Betty Chang
Victor Sen Yung as Hotel Proprietor
Josephine Whittell as Mrs. Emily Dryden
Ottola Nesmith as Mrs. Langdon
Frank Burt Screenplay
Seymour Friedman Director
Edwin H. Bryant Editor
Sam Katzman Producer
Robert Libott Screenplay
Henry Freulich Director of Photography
Ida Forgette Hairstylist
J.S. Westmoreland Sound
Paul Palmentola Art Direction
Ray Sebastian Makeup Artist
Herbert B. Leonard Production Manager
Frank Tuttle Set Decoration
Carter DeHaven Jr. Assistant Director
William P. Whitley Camera Operator
Homer Van Pelt Still Photographer
United States 17 November 1949
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Jacqueline deWit smoking.
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01 February 1949
A wealthy blind man is determined to build a cricket pavilion as a memorial to his dead son, who was killed in battle in World War II.
02 February 1949
A film director, in bad standing with his studio, tries to turn a local carnival dancer into a "French" movie star and pass her off as his big new discovery.
24 March 1949
An employee progresses in the factory where he works by having his wife pass by an attractive Cuban singer.
17 March 1949
The boys are working at the local boxing arena where their friend, Jimmy Higgins, is boxing. During a crooked match Jimmy is killed.
01 January 1949
A bizarre mechanic tells a traveler the story of a bank employee, Peppino Biancaneve, who with the help of a disc is trying to put together the words he would like to use to ask for the hand of the daughter of the jeweler Carlo Casertoni, but while he mulls over the sentences he should pronounce to his future father-in-law he comes across a strange individual who could be a bringer of bad luck: a jettatore.
02 December 1949
A prima donna hires a man to pretend to be her lover so as to protect her from an unwelcome suitor. Unbeknownst to her, he is a tenor in disguise.
05 August 1949
Leon Errol needs to keep his guests apart at dinner.
30 January 1949
Kate Diamond owns the Roaring Falls Trading Post from where she directs her gang's gun-smuggling to the Indians.
01 January 1949
The plot takes place during the Civil War in Greece, and it shows the fight of communist partisans, against the pro-Western, monarchist government.
06 January 1949
To avoid the abandonment of her husband, a woman rents three children with the intention of making him believe that he is the father.
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