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6,3/10
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Adicionar um enredo no seu idiomaA federal agent goes to work for a taxi company believing it to be a front for a gang of counterfeiters.A federal agent goes to work for a taxi company believing it to be a front for a gang of counterfeiters.A federal agent goes to work for a taxi company believing it to be a front for a gang of counterfeiters.
Fotos
DeWitt Jennings
- Capt. Wainwright
- (cenas deletadas)
Agnes Ayres
- Society Woman
- (não creditado)
Joseph E. Bernard
- Copy Reader
- (não creditado)
Edgar Dearing
- Officer Murray
- (não creditado)
John Dilson
- Doc Wilson
- (não creditado)
James Flavin
- Detective McCormick
- (não creditado)
Creighton Hale
- G-Man
- (não creditado)
Sherry Hall
- Monte
- (não creditado)
- Direção
- Roteiristas
- Elenco e equipe completos
- Produção, bilheteria e muito mais no IMDbPro
Enredo
Você sabia?
- CuriosidadesStar Frances Drake was not happy with her first picture at Fox under her new contract or her co-star Brian Donlevy ("... a very strange man. He never talked to anybody."
Avaliação em destaque
... featuring Brian Donlevy as an undercover federal agent who poses as a cab driver in order to infiltrate a gang of counterfeiters.
The film gets off to a fairly jolting start in its opening scene in which a cab drives another car off a road, crashing down into a ravine. The driver of the taxi then shoves own vehicle tumbling down the same steep incline before he rolls himself down the hill as well. Soon afterward we see the cabbie (Harold Huber) appear banged up, talking of his "accident," the other driver (a newspaperman investigating the counterfeit ring, as it turns out) killed. With no witnesses to the murder, he gets off scott free.
Alan Dinehart is silky smooth as an antiques exporter who uses the business as a front for the counterfeit ring. His assistants are beautiful Frances Drake and a grim, humorless Gilbert Roland. Roland is effective as a cold blooded character who trusts nobody, a role considerably contrasting to the affable, good natured character parts he would later have in countless features during the '50s. Sig Rumann, often seen in comical parts, is anything but in this film as the head of the counterfeit ring, ready to double cross his own cohorts, if need be.
Donlevy, a specialist in tough guy roles, both leads and supporting, is convincing in yet another tough mug part, even if this one is a "good guy" risking his life as he mixes in with a ruthless mob. In smallish roles as federal agents are Lon Chaney Jr. In a wasted throwaway part and Regis Toomey (the latter, at least, having the opportunity to appear in disguise as an old woman).
Director Eugene Forde keeps this programmer moving at a fast pace, with the result a hard boiled crime drama, much of its action set at night, that remains an entertaining time waster.
The film gets off to a fairly jolting start in its opening scene in which a cab drives another car off a road, crashing down into a ravine. The driver of the taxi then shoves own vehicle tumbling down the same steep incline before he rolls himself down the hill as well. Soon afterward we see the cabbie (Harold Huber) appear banged up, talking of his "accident," the other driver (a newspaperman investigating the counterfeit ring, as it turns out) killed. With no witnesses to the murder, he gets off scott free.
Alan Dinehart is silky smooth as an antiques exporter who uses the business as a front for the counterfeit ring. His assistants are beautiful Frances Drake and a grim, humorless Gilbert Roland. Roland is effective as a cold blooded character who trusts nobody, a role considerably contrasting to the affable, good natured character parts he would later have in countless features during the '50s. Sig Rumann, often seen in comical parts, is anything but in this film as the head of the counterfeit ring, ready to double cross his own cohorts, if need be.
Donlevy, a specialist in tough guy roles, both leads and supporting, is convincing in yet another tough mug part, even if this one is a "good guy" risking his life as he mixes in with a ruthless mob. In smallish roles as federal agents are Lon Chaney Jr. In a wasted throwaway part and Regis Toomey (the latter, at least, having the opportunity to appear in disguise as an old woman).
Director Eugene Forde keeps this programmer moving at a fast pace, with the result a hard boiled crime drama, much of its action set at night, that remains an entertaining time waster.
- AlsExGal
- 27 de jan. de 2023
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- Midnight Taxi
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- Tempo de duração1 hora 13 minutos
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By what name was Táxi da Meia-Noite (1937) officially released in Canada in English?
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