Summary
In a narrative tapestry woven with threads of deception and diplomatic fragility, 'Midnight' navigates the harrowing journey of Edna Morris, the daughter of an American Ambassador stationed within a South American republic. Following a truncated wedding to Potter, an embassy attaché whose ignominious flight from embezzlement charges leads to a desperate, seemingly fatal plunge into the bay, Edna is thrust back into the American social fold, haunted by a past she believes submerged. The re-emergence of her 'deceased' spouse as a blackmailing specter transforms a tale of newfound love with Jack Dart into a high-stakes psychological thriller. Her father, paralyzed by the fear of an impending scandal, forbids her second union, forcing an elopement that concludes in a chilling discovery within a private library. The film’s tension hinges on a temporal knife-edge: a ten-minute window that determines whether Edna is a bigamist or a widow, a resolution that challenges the very foundations of her moral and legal standing.
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Edna Morris, daughter of the American Ambassador to a South American republic, weds Potter, an embassy attaché; on the same day, Potter is threatened with arrest for embezzlement, and to escape he leaps into the bay. Believing him to be drowned, Edna's father retires to the United States. Edna soon falls in love with Jack Dart, and their engagement is announced; then Potter reappears and reveals himself to Morris, demanding payment for his silence; and Morris, fearful of scandal, forbids Edna to marry Jack. Edna nevertheless elopes with Jack, and on returning from her midnight wedding she finds Potter dead in her father's library. She is horrified at the thought that she may have married Jack before Potter's death, but it is later proved that he died 10 minutes before the marriage took place.
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