The Midnight Man (1974 film)
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| Directed by |
Roland Kibbee Burt Lancaster |
| Produced by |
Roland Kibbee Burt Lancaster |
| Screenplay by |
Roland Kibbee Burt Lancaster |
| Based on | The Midnight Lady and the Mourning Man by David Anthony |
| Starring |
Burt Lancaster Susan Clark Cameron Mitchell Morgan Woodward Harris Yulin Robert Quarry Joan Lorring Lawrence Dobkin Ed Lauter Mills Watson Charles Tyner Catherine Bach |
| Music by | Dave Grusin |
| Cinematography | Jack Priestley |
| Edited by | Frank Morriss |
| Distributed by | Universal Pictures |
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117 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
The Midnight Man is a 1974 detective film starring and co-directed by Burt Lancaster. The film also stars Susan Clark, Cameron Mitchell, Morgan Woodward, Harris Yulin, Robert Quarry, Joan Lorring, Lawrence Dobkin, Ed Lauter, Mills Watson, Charles Tyner and a pre-Dukes of Hazzard Catherine Bach.
A former Chicago policeman, Jim Slade (Lancaster), has just been released on parole from prison for shooting his wife's lover in their bed. He goes to live with friends, Quartz (Cameron Mitchell) and wife Judy (Joan Lorring), in a small town where he has been offered a job (part of his parole agreement) as a night watchman at Jordan College.
A coed (Catherine Bach) is murdered and the local sheriff, Casey (Harris Yulin), tries to pin the crime on a creepy college janitor (Charles Tyner) who spouts Biblical revelation while hiding pornography. Slade has other ideas and pursues an unauthorized investigation of his own. "Taking the lid off the hornet's nest involves him in considerable danger as blackmails, beatings, attempted rape and further murders wrestle for screentime before the long and-overcomplicated drama grinds to a close."
The murdered student turns out to be the daughter of Senator Clayborne (Morgan Woodward), who subsequently receives blackmail letters over his daughter Natalie's confession to her campus psychiatric department counselor about an incestuous relationship with her father. Incriminating cassette tapes of the account have fallen into the hands of the blackmailers. Slade questions possible suspects including Natalie Clayborne's estranged boyfriend King, (played by Burt Lancaster's son, William), who declares to Slade that the generation gap "just got a little wider," and Dean Collins, the psych professor (played by actual Clemson faculty member Harold N. Cooledge Jr.), as well as a nerdy student whose taped psych rant was also stolen and Senator Clayborne himself.
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