Men of the Night
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Cast & Crew
Lambert Hillyer
Bruce Cabot
Judith Allen
Ward Bond
Charles Sabin
John Kelly
Film Details
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Synopsis
When hard-boiled Hollywood Detective Sergeant "Stake-Out" Kelly and his partner John Connors prevent the robbery of a gas station, they win praise from the police force but gain the antipathy of the city's criminal element. While the underworld plans to kill Kelly, he is promoted to lieutenant and ordered to capture a gang of jewel thieves who have been robbing women in public places. As Kelly stakes out one such place, a drive-in sandwich stand, he is warned by Mary Higgins, one of the attendants, that he is being followed. Kelly soon becomes smitten with Mary, who tells him that she came to Hollywood from Iowa hoping to become a movie star. Their romance flourishes until Kelly accuses Mary of being in league with the gang and tipping them off about a prisoner who was being tranported by the police. To prove her innocence, Mary goes undercover for the police and takes a job at the gang's cafe so that she can inform on them. Mary's plan goes awry, however, when the gangsters find her hiding in the cafe while they are planning a robbery. Mary is forced to accompany the gangsters on the robbery, but she is freed when the gang is surprised by the police. After the gang's capture, Kelly sends Mary back to Iowa, but then changes his mind and wires her on the train, telling her that he is coming after her.
Director
Lambert Hillyer
Cast
Bruce Cabot
Judith Allen
Ward Bond
Charles Sabin
John Kelly
Arthur Rankin
Matthew Betz
Walter Mcgrail
Maidel Turner
Charles C. Wilson
Frank Darien
Harry Holman
James Wang
Al Hill
Louis Natheaux
Eddie Foster
Frank Marlowe
Gladys Gale
Robert Graves
Pearl Eaton
Frank Meredith
Jack Mack
Tom London
Dick Rush
Lucille Ball
Frank O'connor
Lee Shumway
Mitchell Ingraham
Jack King
Matty Roubert
Ernie Adams
Charles Mcmurphy
Bruce Randall
Dutch Hendrian
Herman Marks
Johnnie Morris
Billy Engle
Ivan Christy
Arthur Stuart Hull
Phyllis Crane
Harry Dunkinson
Nell Baldwin
Louise Dean
Isabel Vecki
Peggy Leon
Lucille De Never
Jeanne Lawrence
Crew
Irving Briskin
Al Clark
C. C. Coleman
Chick Collins
Lodge Cunningham
Russell Custer
Henry Freulich
Aline Goodwin
Lambert Hillyer
Fred Humes
Harvey Perry
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Notes
The working title of this film was Stake Out.
