CFM #38 Mark Stevens, Edmond O'Brien & Gale Storm in "Between Midnight and Dawn" (1950)

CFM #38
Mark Stevens, Edmond O'Brien & Gale Storm in "Between Midnight and Dawn" (1950)

Police Officers Rocky Barnes (Mark Stevens) and Daniel Purvis (Edmond O'Brien), working the night shift, have been partners since they served in the war together. Although Rocky believes that even criminals have some good inside, Daniel is more cynical.

Daniel is particularly anxious to capture petty criminal Ritchie Garris (Donald Buka), but is hampered by the fact that the victims of Garris' strong-arm tactics refuse to testify against him.

Rocky is more interested in the face that belongs to the sultry voice of the night dispatcher, Katharine 'Kate' Mallory (Gale Storm), a policeman's daughter and the captain's secretary.

Rocky and Daniel invite Kate to dinner at Garris' club, and there they spot Leo Cusick (Roland Winters), an important mobster from the East. Rocky and Daniel believe that Cusick's presence at the club signals the beginning of a gang war to take control of the city. When the policemen drop Kate off at her home, she tells them there will be no more dates because she does not want to repeat her mother's experience as a policeman's widow. Kate's mother (Madge Blake), on the other hand, encourages the men's interest in her daughter by renting them the flat next door.