Midnight Molly
{{short description|1925 film}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=August 2018}}
{{Infobox film
| name = Midnight Molly
| image = Midnight Molly (1925) - 1.jpg
| caption = Advertisement
| director = Lloyd Ingraham
| producer =
| writer = Fred Myton
| starring = Evelyn Brent
| music =
| cinematography = Silvano Balboni
| editing =
| studio = Gothic Pictures
| distributor = Film Booking Offices of America
| released = {{film date|1925|1|11}}
| runtime = 50 minutes
| country = United States
| language = Silent (English intertitles)
| budget =
| gross =
}}
Midnight Molly is a 1925 American silent drama film directed by Lloyd Ingraham and starring Evelyn Brent in a dual role.{{cite web |url=http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/M/MidnightMolly1925.html |title=Progressive Silent Film List: Midnight Molly |accessdate=September 7, 2011 |work=silentera.com}} A print of the film exists in the BFI National Archive.{{cite web |url=http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.298/default.html |title=Midnight Molly |accessdate=January 9, 2014 |work=American Silent Feature Film Survival Database}}
Plot
As described in a review in a film magazine,{{cite journal |last=Sewell |first=Charles S. |author-link= |title=Midnight Molly; Evelyn Brent Has Dual Role in Entertaining Crook Picture, Her Newest Production for F.B.O. |journal=The Moving Picture World |volume=72 |issue=6 |pages=558, 586 |publisher=Chalmers Publishing Co. |location=New York City |date=7 February 1925 |url=https://archive.org/details/movingpicturewor72janf/page/558/mode/1up |access-date=23 August 2021}} Midnight Molly, surprised by detectives as she is stealing a painting, escapes but is run down by an automobile and is taken to the hospital. Margaret, wife of District Attorney John Warren (Gordon), elopes with adventurer George Calvin. John is called to the hospital and finds that Molly is the double of his wife. Hoping to avert a scandal, he takes her home. Molly recovers and keeps up the deception. John runs for governor. Calvin hears of this and, seeing a chance for blackmail, returns. Detective Daley is suspicious of Molly and hopes to trap her by taking her fingerprints. However, Daley's stool pigeon squeals on his plans. Molly goes to Margaret and forces her to come to the Warren house and be fingerprinted, saving the situation. Margaret and Calvin are later killed, and John and Molly are married.
Cast
- Evelyn Brent as Margaret Warren / Midnight Molly
- John T. Dillon as Daley (credited as John Dillon)
- Bruce Gordon as John Warren
- Léon Bary as George Calvin (as Leon Barry)
- John Gough as Fogarty
References
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External links
{{commons category|Midnight Molly}}
- {{IMDb title|id=0016108|title=Midnight Molly}}
{{Lloyd Ingraham}}
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Category:Silent American drama films
Category:American silent feature films
Category:American black-and-white films
Category:Films directed by Lloyd Ingraham
Category:Film Booking Offices of America films