Night Key (1937)
HE MADE HIS ENEMIES BEG FOR MERCY!
The inventor of a new top-of-the-line burglar alarm system is kidnapped by a gang in order to get him to help them commit robberies.
- Date of release
- 1937-04-18
- TMDB
- 6.2 / 10 (35)
- Runtime
- 1h 8m
- Genres
- Science Fiction, Crime
- Director
- Lloyd Corrigan
Casting
- Boris Karloff — David Mallory
- Warren Hull — Jim Travers
- Jean Rogers — Joan Mallory
- Alan Baxter — John Baron aka The Kid
- Hobart Cavanaugh — Petty Louie
- Samuel S. Hinds — Steven Ranger
- David Oliver — Mike Callahan
- Ward Bond — Fingers
- Frank Reicher — Carl - gang engineer
- Edwin Maxwell — Lawyer Kruger
- George Cleveland — Sam Adams - Company Engineer (uncredited)
- Ruth Fallows — Waitress (uncredited)
Interesting facts
Night Key is a 1937 American crime horror science fiction film starring Boris Karloff and released by Universal Pictures.
Production
Filming began on January 18, 1937, with a budget of $175,000. Filming ended on either February 16 or February 20, 6 days over schedule and $17,000 over budget.
This was the last film in which Boris Karloff was billed by only his last name, a policy that Universal had begun with The Old Dark House in 1932 and had continued for eight films across six years during the height of Karloff's career.
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