City in Darkness

Name: City in Darkness
Genre: Crime, Thriller, Mystery
Released: 1939-11-15
Duration: 75 min
Rating: 6.4
Cast: Sidney Toler, Harold Huber, Pedro de Cordoba, Lynn Bari, Richard Clarke

PARIS! BLACKOUT!...but there's no blackout for crime...and the great detective is commandeered!

Crime Thriller Mystery

City in Darkness(1939)

PARIS! BLACKOUT!...but there's no blackout for crime...and the great detective is commandeered!

Crime Thriller Mystery

6.4/ 10 (17 votes)

1h 15m

1939-11-15

Overview

Chan, in Paris for a reunion with friends from World War I, becomes involved in investigating the murder of a munitions manufacturer who was supplying arms to the enemy, even as the rising clouds of World War II force the city into nightly blackout status..

DirectorHerbert I. Leeds

WriterRobert Ellis

ScreenplayHelen Logan

Theatre PlayGina Kaus

Cast

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Keywords

paris, francearms smugglingespionagemurderburglaryenemy agentcheap hotelforgereve of world war iiforged passportburglarscomical sidekickbumbling copfugitive suspectgas masksbistro

City in Darkness

City in Darkness(1939)

Overview

Cast

Sidney Toler

Harold Huber

Pedro de Cordoba

Lynn Bari

Richard Clarke

Dorothy Tree

Noel Madison

Leo G. Carroll

C. Henry Gordon

Louis Mercier

George Davis

Barbara Leonard