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With its Art Deco setting and entertaining performances by comedians Ray Cooke, Franklin Pangborn and, as a deaf mute, Mischa Auer, independent producer C.C. Burr's Midnight Patrol remains an entertaining genre picture from the heyday of Hollywood's Poverty Row. In addition, the film engaged no less than three former leading ladies whose careers were on the wane: Betty Bronson of Peter Pan fame, Ziegfeld girl Mary Nolan, and erstwhile Trader Horn star Edwina Booth. None would make much of an impact in sound films but at least Bronson shows here that she could handle dialogue as well as anybody. Director William Christy Cabanne had been in films since the beginning and despite its Poverty Row origins, Midnight Patrol survives as a well-crafted, fairly suspenseful thriller.