| Before Midnight | |
| Director: | Lambert Hillyer |
| Starring: | Ralph Bellamy June Collyer Claude Gillingwater |
| Cinematography: | John Stumar |
| Editing: | Otto Meyer |
| Studio: | Columbia Pictures |
| Distributor: | Columbia Pictures |
| Runtime: | 63 minutes |
| Country: | United States |
| Language: | English |
Before Midnight is a 1933 American pre-Code mystery crime film directed by Lambert Hillyer and starring Ralph Bellamy, June Collyer and Claude Gillingwater. Produced and distributed by Columbia Pictures, it was the first in a series of four films featuring Inspector Steve Trent of the NYPD.[1] Bellamy featured in all three sequels One Is Guilty, The Crime of Helen Stanley and Girl in Danger.[2]
NYC Police Inspector Steve Trent is called to the estate of wealthy Edward Arnold around sixty miles outside NYC on a stormy night. Arnold has had a premonition that he is going to be murdered that night.