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A Gentleman After Dark is a american film of genre Drama directed by Edwin L. Marin released in USA on 16 april 1942 with Brian Donlevy
A Gentleman After Dark (1942)
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Add to a movie listA Gentleman After Dark is a 1942 crime/drama film starring Brian Donlevy and Miriam Hopkins.
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We pick up the story when the editor of the New York Chronicle sits on New Year’s Eve 1923 awaiting news on the theft of legandary Mrs. Reginald Thorndyke’s jewellry, a bracelet worth about $50,000. Meanwhile, Tom Gaynor, Captain of the Detective Bureau, finds out that the jewel thief in fact is none other than the notorious Harry ”Heliotrope” Melton. The Heliotrope’s signatory is that he always wears a heliotrope flowers in his jacket lapel. His lover and partner in crime, Flo, is just about to give birth at a hospital, when Harry comes to bring her a bracelet as a gift of love. Detective Gaynor believes that Harry deep down is essentially a nice person, with a lot of goodness inside. Gaynor thinks Harry has been lead to walk the wrong path because of outer circumstances.Actors
Brian Donlevy
(Harry Melton)
Miriam Hopkins
(Flo Melton)
Preston Foster
(Tom Gaynor)
Harold Huber
(Stubby)
Phillip Reed
(Eddie Smith)
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