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Tonight at Twelve
Also known as Hoje à Meia-Noite in Brazil; Ma femme me trompe in France; Éjféli kaland in Hungary
(1929) United States of America
B&W : Seven reels / 6884 feet / 78 minutes
Directed by Harry A. Pollard

Cast: Madge Bellamy [Jane Eldridge], Robert Ellis [Jack Keith], Margaret Livingston [Nan Stoddard], Vera Reynolds [Barbara Warren], Norman Trevor [Professor Eldridge], Hallam Cooley [Bill Warren], Mary Doran [Mary], George Lewis (George J. Lewis) [Tony Keith], Madeline Seymour [Alice Keith], Josephine Brown [Dora Eldridge], Donald Douglas [Tom Stoddard], Louise Carver [Ellen], Nick Thompson [Tom]

Universal Pictures Corporation production; distributed by Universal Pictures Corporation. / Produced by Harry A. Pollard. Scenario by Matt Taylor, with dialogue by Matt Taylor and Harry A. Pollard, from an adaptation by Matt Taylor and Harry A. Pollard of a play by Owen Davis. Cinematography by Jerome Ash. Film editor, Maurice Pivar. Intertitles written by Owen Davis. / Released 29 September 1929. / [?] 35mm spherical 1.20:1 format (sound version). [?] Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format (silent version)? Western Electric synchronized sound system. / The film was also released in the USA in a silent version (at 5176 feet) by Universal Pictures Corporation in 1929. The film was released in Hungary as Éjféli kaland on 1 May 1930. / Full-sound film.

Drama.

Survival status: The film is presumed lost.

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Keywords: Synchronized sound film

Listing updated: 27 October 2018.

References: Drew-Speaking pp. 31, 274 : ClasIm-204 p. 42 : Website-IMDb.

 
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