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The Midnight Story is a 1957 American CinemaScope film noir crime film directed by Joseph Pevney and starring Tony Curtis, Marisa Pavan and Gilbert Roland. The film was originally slated to be titled The Eyes of Father Tomasino, after the 1955 Lux Video Theatre TV episode it was based on. [1] [2]
The Midnight Story: Directed by Joseph Pevney. With Tony Curtis, Marisa Pavan, Gilbert Roland, Jay C. Flippen. After a San Francisco priest is murdered, a policeman, who's a close friend, starts an investigation.
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- Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
- Joseph Pevney
- 1957-06-04
Dec 21, 2020 · Beloved priest Father Thomasino is murdered in a San Francisco alley, and the police have few clues. But traffic cop Joe Martini becomes obsessed with findin...
- 89 min
- 17.6K
- videoGR8
The Midnight Story was also a working title for a 1955 Universal film, The Price of Fear, but the two pictures are unrelated. According to contemporary news items, Mark Stevens Productions purchased the screen rights to Edwin Blum's unproduced script The Eyes of Father Tomasino in early August 1955 and announced that it would present the drama first on Lux Video Theatre , as a kind of preview ...
The Midnight Story is one of those movies that demonstrates that Curtis could really act. He always felt that he had the makings of a “real” actor, and a good one, but producers preferred not to take risks and kept casting him in lightweight rôles (which he happened to be very good at).
- 90 min
Jul 9, 2023 · When a San Francisco priest is murdered, a policeman, who's a close friend, starts an investigation. Please remember to like this film and subscribe to Cinem...
- 90 min
- 3.3K
- Cinema4Reel
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Jeff Sexton ★★★½. "The Midnight Story" is a crime drama starring Tony Curtis as Joe Martini, an ordinary San Francisco traffic cop, who is deeply affected by the brutal murder of Father Tomasino, a priest who acted as a mentor and father figure to him. Suspecting local seafood vendor, Silvio Malatesta, to be involved, Joe tries to ...
