Half Past Midnight

Half Past Midnight
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Directed by	William F. Claxton
Produced by	Sol M. Wurtzel
Screenplay by	Arnold Belgard
Starring	Kent Taylor Peggy Knudsen
Music by	Darrell Calker
Cinematography	Benjamin H. Kline
Edited by	Frank Baldridge
Distributed by	20th Century Fox
Release date	March 1948
Running time	69 min.
Country	United States
Language	English

Half Past Midnight is a 1948 American comedy / murder mystery film, William F. Claxton's first directed feature after eight years as a film editor.

Kent Taylor plays a man who meets a dancer in a nightclub. She's implicated in a killing, and he's drawn into escaping from the police with her through Chinatown as they seek the real murderer.