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The Midnight Man(1919)
Status: Released
Date: 1919-09-01
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Time: 4h 30m
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Bob Gilmore, a young clubman, is called by telephone to his home, where his parents are giving him a birthday party. He overhears one of the men guests make a slurring remark about his mother's appearance, and proceeds to punish him then and there, throwing the entire gathering into an uproar. Later in the evening he assumes guilt for a check which had been in reality forged by his foster father, in order to save the mother's feelings, but obtains a written confession from the guilty man for future use if necessary. Learning that he had been adopted from a foundling asylum in infancy, Bob decides to go to New York to see if he cannot learn his real name, which he understands begins with "Mor."
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United States of America
ProductionCompanies:
Universal Film Manufacturing Company
Movie: The Midnight Man
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James J. Corbett
Bob Gilmore aka Jim Stevens aka The Midnight Man
Kathleen O'Connor
Nell Morgan
Joseph W. Girard
Henry Morgan
Noble Johnson
Spike
Orral Humphrey
John Zafara
Joseph Singleton
Steve Arnold
Ann Forrest
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Bob Gilmore, a young clubman, is called by telephone to his home, where his parents are giving him a birthday party. He overhears one of the men guests make a slurring remark about his mother's appearance, and proceeds to punish him then and there, throwing the entire gathering into an uproar. Later in the evening he assumes guilt for a check which had been in reality forged by his foster father, in order to save the mother's feelings, but obtains a written confession from the guilty man for future use if necessary. Learning that he had been adopted from a foundling asylum in infancy, Bob decides to go to New York to see if he cannot learn his real name, which he understands begins with "Mor."
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