Before Dawn (1933)
This suspenseful, exciting mystery is based upon an Edgar Wallace story and centers upon the search for $1 million in buried loot. Only the original thief, Joe Valerie knows its location. He tells the crazed Austrian Dr. Cornelius about it. The good doc secretly schemes to get it for himself, but first he must evade a determined detective and the bogus psychic he has hired to help him out. The search leads the gumshoe to a spooky, seemingly haunted mansion. Three people die during the hunt and as they go, the mystic and the detective find themselves falling in love. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi
- Starring:
- Stuart Erwin, Dorothy Wilson, (more)
- Director(s):
- Irving Pichel
Synopsis of Before Dawn
This suspenseful, exciting mystery is based upon an Edgar Wallace story and centers upon the search for $1 million in buried loot. Only the original thief, Joe Valerie knows its location. He tells the crazed Austrian Dr. Cornelius about it. The good doc secretly schemes to get it for himself, but first he must evade a determined detective and the bogus psychic he has hired to help him out. The search leads the gumshoe to a spooky, seemingly haunted mansion. Three people die during the hunt and as they go, the mystic and the detective find themselves falling in love. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi
Complete Cast of Before Dawn
- Stuart Erwin - Dwight Wilson
- Warner Oland - Dr. Paul Cornelius
- Gertrude W. Hoffman - Mattie
- Frank Reicher - Joe Valerie
- Dorothy Wilson - Patricia Merrick
- Dudley Digges - Horace Merrick
- Oscar Apfel - John F. O'Hara
- Jane Darwell - Mrs. Marble
- Director(s):
- Irving Pichel
- Writer(s):
- Marion Dix, Ralph Block, Garrett Elsden Fort
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