a5c7b9f00b The Phantom Robber gets a fortune in jewels and some valuable papers from a robbery on the crack train &quot;The Midnight Limited&quot; and Val Lennon and his pretty assistant, Joan Marshall, are on his trail. But the Phantom strikes three more times and adds murder to his list. Val decides to use himselfbait, although Chief Harrigan and Joan beg him not to risk his life. But Val, disguiseda wealthy Canadian, boards the train for a rendezvous with a killer. In the 1930s and 40s, there were at least 6,000,004 B-mystery movies made…or so it seems. It was one of the most popular genres and while there were some excellent ones, the rest mostly fall in the category of Time Passers….and &quot;Midnight Limited&quot; is one such time passer.<br/><br/>The film is set mostly on trains, where a criminal genius keeps robbing folks of huge sums of money…and the police seem powerless to stop this. However, Val (&#39;Dusty&#39; King) promises to solve the case.<br/><br/>Dusty King was an actor known for B-westerns and action movies. In other words, he was pretty good at punching folks and the like….but wasn&#39;t the most charismatic or sexy actors. In fact, in this one he seems incredibly ordinary. He couldn&#39;t help it…he just wasn&#39;t a strong leading man type for this sort of film. Add to that the rather cheap look of the film and you&#39;ve got a film that isn&#39;t bad…but isn&#39;t all that good either. This movie was interesting but a little corny at times( when Val sings) They had to cram a lot in 61 minutes. the movie&#39;s movement had a little Dragnet to it..&quot;just the facts&#39;. The police characters seemed a little stiff and the mechanics of the railroad police etc was not very believable.( Adding Majorie to the force just because she said she would help) The addition of Willie the conductor was a nice a piece but the dialog with him was too simple and notcomic reliefit could have been… Majorie Reynolds was good and you can see her potential…remembering herthe wife to Chester a Riley is quite easy..The plot was good and could have been developed better but…All in all a good investment of your time far better that reruns on TV…..
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