The Midnight Warning

{{short description|1932 film}} {{Use mdy dates|date=December 2020}} {{Infobox film | name = The Midnight Warning | image = The Midnight Warning.jpg | caption = | director = Spencer Gordon Bennet | producer = Cliff P. Broughton<br>George W. Weeks | based_on = | writer = John T. Neville<br>Norman Battle | narrator = | starring = William "Stage" Boyd<br>Claudia Dell<br>Huntley Gordon | music = Lee Zahler | cinematography = Jules Cronjager | editing = Byron Robinson | studio = George W. Weeks Productions | distributor = Mayfair Pictures | released = {{Film date|1932|11|15}} | runtime = 63 minutes | country = United States | language = English | budget = | gross = }} '''''The Midnight Warning''''' is a 1932 American mystery film directed by Spencer Gordon Bennet and starring William "Stage" Boyd, Claudia Dell and Huntley Gordon.<ref>Turner & Price p.69</ref> The film is also known as '''''Eyes of Mystery''''' (new American title).

==Plot== A sister & brother check into a posh hotel. Shortly thereafter, the brother is missing, & despite the sister's inquiries, no one admits to ever having seen the man. Meanwhile, a sniper shoots bullets through the window of the room that the brother & sister stayed in. Is there any connection between these events? That's the mystery.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/83453/midnight-warning|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141014063838/http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/83453/Midnight-Warning/|url-status=dead|archive-date=October 14, 2014|title=Turner Classic Movies: Midnight Warning|access-date=March 22, 2019}}</ref> It is based on the legend of the Vanishing Hotel Room.

==Cast== * William "Stage" Boyd as Thorwaldt Cornish * Claudia Dell as Enid Van Buren * Huntley Gordon as Mr. Gordon * John Harron as Erich * Hooper Atchley as Dr. Steven Walcott * Lloyd Whitlock as Rankin * Phillips Smalley as Dr. Bronson * Lloyd Ingraham as Adolph Klein * Henry Hall as Dr. Barris

==References== {{Reflist}}

==Bibliography== * George Eugene Turner & Michael H. Price. ''Forgotten Horrors: Early Talkie Chillers from Poverty Row''. A. S. Barnes, 1979.

==External links== *{{IMDb title|0023221}} *{{Internet Archive film|id=Midnight_Warning_1932|name=Midnight Warning}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Midnight Warning}} Category:1932 films Category:1932 mystery films Category:American mystery films Category:1932 English-language films Category:Films directed by Spencer Gordon Bennet Category:Mayfair Pictures films Category:1932 American films Category:English-language mystery films