Murder in the Night (1940)
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Originally released in England in 1938 as Murder in Soho, this moody melodrama was advertised in America as "The rapid-fire story of an underworld mobster with a social bee in his bonnet and a rod on his hip"(Whew!) The mobster in question is Steve Marco, played with appropriate sneering… More Originally released in England in 1938 as Murder in Soho, this moody melodrama was advertised in America as "The rapid-fire story of an underworld mobster with a social bee in his bonnet and a rod on his hip"(Whew!) The mobster in question is Steve Marco, played with appropriate sneering menace by Jack LaRue. Booted out of Chicago by the feds, Marco sets up a respectable nightclub in London as a front for his many criminal activities. When a murder is committed in the club and the body deposited in the street, Scotland Yard inspector Hammond (Martin Walker) suspects that Marco is responsible. With Hammond's unofficial blessing, nightclub hostess Ruby Lane (Sandra Storme), the dead man's widow, and inquiring reporter Roy Barnes (played by Bernard Lee, later to gain worldwide fame as "M" in the James Bond series) go undercover to get the goods on the social-climbing mobster. Though Murder in the Night could have gotten by on its own merits, the bravura performance of Jack LaRue truly "makes" the film. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Directed By
- Norman Lee
- Written By
- F. McGrew Willis
- Genres
- Drama, Mystery & Suspense, Classics
Unrated,
- In Theaters
- Jul 10, 1940 Wide
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Cast
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Jack LaRue
as Steve Marco
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Sandra Storme
as Ruby Lane
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Bernard Lee
as Roy Barnes
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Martin Walker
as Inspector Hammond
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James Hayter
as Nick Green
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Googie Withers
as Lola Matthews
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Drue Leyton
as Myrtle
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Arthur O'Connell
as Lefty
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Edmon Ryan
as Spike
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Francis Lister
as Joe Lane
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Alf Goddard
as Mike
- Joss Ambler
- Robert Beatty
- Renée Gadd
- Geoffrey Sumner
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Diana Beaumont
as Girl
- Zillah Bateman
- Diana Ward
