Midnight Limited (1940)

50% User Rating

1h 1min

"DEATH RIDES THE RAILS!"

The Phantom Robber gets a fortune in jewels and some valuable papers from a robbery on the crack train "The Midnight Limited" and Val Lennon and his pretty assistant, Joan Marshall, are on his trail. But the Phantom strikes three more times and adds murder to his list. Val decides to use himself as bait, although Chief Harrigan and Joan beg him not to risk his life. But Val, disguised as a wealthy Canadian, boards the train for a rendezvous with a killer.

Howard BrethertonDirector

Cast

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John 'Dusty' King

Val Lennon

Marjorie Reynolds

Joan Marshall

George Cleveland

Professor Van Dillon

Edward Keane

Captain Harrigan

Monte Collins

Abel Krantz

I. Stanford Jolley

Frenchie

Pat Flaherty

Train Conductor

Herbert Ashley

Trainman

Lita Chevret

Mae Krantz

Ray Bennett

Jake Pringle (Uncredited)

Joe Caits

Detective Conway (Uncredited)

Lane Chandler

Inspector in Montreal (Uncredited)

Frank Hagney

Detective Joe O'Neill (Uncredited)

Warren Jackson

Joe, Hotel Desk Clerk (Uncredited)

Wilbur Mack

Mr. Gellard (Uncredited)

Ray Turner

John, Train Porter (Uncredited)

Buck Woods

Willy, Train Porter (Uncredited)

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CinemaSerf

Rating 50%

June 23, 2022

Sadly, the exciting billings for this tale of high speed shenanigans on a train don't quite deliver. "The Phantom Robber" pinches a fortune in jewellery whilst onboard the "Midnight Limited" and soon Dusty King & Marjorie Reynolds are on his trail. Things turn more violent as they turn the heat up on the culprit but nowhere near pacily enough to keep me interested. It is only an hour long, but has way too much monotonous dialogue from a pretty pedestrian cast, and precious little by way of adventure.