Between Midnight and Dawn which I saw on ok.ru is a fascinating cop movie that has a completely different outcome then you would expect. It is about Rocky Barnes ( Mark Stevens) the younger and more sensitive cop, and. Daniel Purvis (Edmond O'Brien) the older and more hardened cop. There is a love triangle between them and Katherine Mallory ( Gale Storm) who is a police dispatcher. Of course, there is a bad guy and it is Ritchie Garris (Donald Buka), who is one of the nastiest villains you will ever see in a movie. Watch the scene between him and a little girl named Kathy he hangs out a window and you will get what I mean. Spoilers ahead: Rocky is engaged to Katherine but is murdered by Garris ( revenge for him and Purvis arresting him). Of course it is up to Purvis to get Garris and save the girl, which he does but only after Ritchie's girlfriend Terry sacrificed herself to save Purvis. In the next to last scene, Kathy's mother says to Katherine "Take Care Of Him." and she says "I will." and in the final scene they walk away arms locked together, so it is more then implied they are getting married. It is interesting that it is the older cop that gets the girl and the younger one who dies ( unlike most films where the older one dies and the younger one survives). Basically two people had to die for O'Brien to end up with Storm. It is certainly worth watching mostly for O'Brien ( good as usual) and Buka. 8:10 stars.
Review of Between Midnight and Dawn
