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A Shriek In The Night (1933)
American pre-Code Romance Crime Mystery.
Pat Morgan and Ted Kord are rival newspaper reporters always trying to outscoop each other. They join together to solve a series of murders being committed in an apartment building.
According to a press sheet on the film in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) Library, writer Kurt Kempler was a former New York police reporter, and the film was based on an actual occurrence. This was his fifth and last screen credit.
A Shriek In The Night is the best-known film of independent studio Allied Pictures Corp., a company controlled by producer M.H. Hoffman, and one of Hollywood’s ‘Poverty Row’ enterprises, releasing low-budget B pictures from 1931 until its folding in early 1934.
Ginger Rogers (Pat Morgan) and Lyle Talbot (Ted Rand) were at the beginning of their film careers, having previously appeared in ‘The Thirteenth Guest (1932)’, another M.H. Hoffman production, and ’42nd Street (1933)’, one of Warner Bros. Pictures most profitable films of that year.
| Directed by | Albert Ray |
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| Written by | Frances Hyland Kurt Kempler |
| Produced by | M.H. Hoffman M.H. Hoffman, Jr. |
| Starring | Ginger Rogers Lyle Talbot Harvey Clark |
| Cinematography | Tom Galligan Harry Neumann |
| Edited by | Leete Renick Brown |
| Music by | Abe Meyer |
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Production
company |
Allied Pictures
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| Distributed by | Allied Pictures |
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Release date
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July 22, 1933 |
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Running time
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66 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
