Before Morning

A night of love, intrigue, death and blackmail leaves stage-star Elise Manning's fate at stake in a conflict with the unscrupulous Doctor Gruell. A rejected lover dies in Miss Manning's apartment, and Gurell implies that the death was murder and attempts to blackmail the actress. The climax brings the actress, her fiancé and the dead-man's wife face-to-face in an emotional denouement.

• Arthur HoerlDirector

• Leo CarrilloDr. Gruelle
• Lora BaxterElsie Manning
• Taylor HolmesLeo Bergman
• Blaine CordnerHorace Barker
• Louise PrussingMrs. Nichols
• Russell HicksJim Nichols
• Louis Jean HeydtNeil Kennedy
• Victor KilianEddie