Before Dawn (film)

The film stars Stuart Erwin, Dorothy Wilson, Warner Oland, Dudley Digges and Gertrude Hoffman.

[1][2][3] Dying gangster Joe Valerie reveals the hiding place of a million dollars in loot to his physician Dr. Cornelius.

The sinister Austrian doctor has designs on the money, but must first outwit detective Dwight Wilson and clairvoyant Patricia Merrick.

The setting is an eerie, possibly haunted house in small-town America where the stash is hidden and the bodies begin to accumulate.

In a contemporary review for The New York Times, critic Mordaunt Hall wrote: "[T]his particular ruddy specimen is blessed with vigor and imagination.