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Plot

Stanley Holloway carries the ball, comedically and dramatically, in the British Midnight Episode. Holloway plays "The Professor," a tattered hobo who recites Shakespeare for pennies. He also picks up spare change by opening car doors for theatre patrons. While thus occupied, the Professor is startled when a dead body tumbles out of a limousine. Soon after, the body disappears, leaving behind a wallet bulging with money. The Professor providentially turns in some of the money to the authorities, keeping the rest for himself--and thereby hangs the rest of this complicated tale. Wilfred Hyde-White, who later co-starred with Stanley Holloway in My Fair Lady, turns in a surprising characterization as the leader of a criminal gang.
MPAA Rating:
Genre(s):
Crime and Mystery,Drama,Thriller
Run Time:
78min.
Director(s):
Gordon Parry
Starring:
Stanley Holloway , Leslie Dwyer , Reginald Tate , Meredith Edwards
Keywords:
Italy,actor,arrest,cafe,car,clue,corpse,death,door,hidden,identity,killing,loot,murder,owner,patron,police,poverty,restaurant,return,stage,survivor,wallet