The Midnight Man (1919)
Overview
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."
What is The Midnight Man about?
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." The Midnight Man is a Adventure movie, released on 1919-09-01, runtime 270 minutes.
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Directed by
James W. Horne
Cast
- James J. Corbett as Bob Gilmore aka Jim Stevens aka The Midnight Man
- Kathleen O'Connor as Nell Morgan
- Joseph W. Girard as Henry Morgan
- Noble Johnson as Spike
- Orral Humphrey as John Zafara
- Joseph Singleton as Steve Arnold
- Ann Forrest
- Georgia Woodthorpe as Martha Gilmore
- Frank Jonasson as John Gilmore
- William Sauter as Hargreaves
- Sam Polo
- Montgomery Carlyle
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