Captain Midnight (1942)

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Country: USA
Genres: Action, Adventure, Drama
Release: 1942-02-15
Director: James W. Horne
Writers: Basil Dickey , George H. Plympton , Jack Stanley , Wyndham Gittens
Language: English
Stars: Dave O’Brien , Dorothy Short , James Craven , Sam Edwards , Guy Wilkerson , Bryant Washburn , Luana Walters , Joseph W. Girard , Ray Teal , George Pembroke
Runtime: 270 min
Awards: N/A
AKA: Capitão Meia-Noite (Brazil) , Capitán de media noche (Mexico) , Captain Midnight (United Kingdom) , Captain Midnight , Captain Midnight (United States of America)
Plot: Secret Service Major Steel (Joseph W. Girard), is one of the few men in America aware of the fact that Captain Albright (Dave O'Brien) is also Captain Midnight, daring masked aviator dedicated to fighting gangsters and enemies of America. When murderous bombing attacks are made on West Coast munitions plants, Steel sends for Albright and asks him to track down the mysterious Ivan Shark (James Craven), the foreign agent mastermind behind the attacks. Shark has learned about an ingenious range finder, invented by John Edwards (Bryant Washburn, and makes plans to obtain a model of the invention. Edwards instructs his daughter, Joyce (Dorothy Short), to bring the model to Albright for safekeeping in his mountain laboratory. Shark takes Edwards prisoner by Albright assures Joyce that her father will be saved and an end put to Shark's reign of terror. Dressing as Captain Midnight and enlisting the aid of his friends, Chuck (Sam Edwards) and Ichabod Mudd (Guy Wilkerson), Captain Midnight delivers on his promises fourteen chapters later.
IMDB:tt0034577