Before Dawn (1933)
Director: Irving Pichel
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
RKO cheapie based on Edgar Wallace's Death Watch, with Wilson as the pretty spiritualist involved in the unmasking of a murderer. Set in an old dark house where loot lies hidden, it's watchable (with a nicely sinister performance from Oland), but pretty routine when one recalls that Pichel made The Most Dangerous Game a year earlier.Author: TM
Cast & crew
Director: Irving Pichel
Cast: Stuart Erwin, Warner Oland, Dorothy Wilson, Dudley Digges, Jane Darwell, Gertrude W Hoffman full cast
Duration: 60 mins
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