On this day in movie and book history - Two in the Dark (1936) and Two O'clock Courage (1934)

Two in the Dark

directed by Benjamin Stoloff,

written by Gelett Burgess, Willis Goldbeck and Seton I. Miller,

based on the novel Two O'clock Courage by Gelett Burgess,

was released in the United States on January 10, 1936.

Music by Alberto Colombo.

Cast:

Walter Abel, Margot Grahame, Wallace Ford, Gail Patrick, Alan Hale, Leslie Fenton, Eric Blore, Erin O'Brien-Moore, Erik Rhodes, J. Carrol Naish, Jack Randall, Ernie Alexander, Ward Bond, Harry Bowen, Nora Cecil, James Conaty, Fern Emmett, Gaston Glass, Russell Hicks, Richard Howard, Arthur Hoyt, Frank Mayo, Tom McGuire, Hector V. Sarno, C. Montague Shaw, Pierre Watkin, Thelma White.

Recommended reading:

 

Two O’clock Courage

by Gelett Burgess.
 
Filmed as Two in the Dark (1936), directed by Benjamin Stoloff.
 
ASIN: B005D2SGQU
Published by Surinam Turtle Press.
Published 1934.
Hardcover.
 
Description:
 

This 1934 thriller is the third book under Richard A. Lupoff's Surinam Turtle imprint. A man wakes up in a park and can't remember who he is. But thanks to the help of a couple of intriguing women, he manages to remain free from arrest for a murder he MAY have committed. But he simply must figure out his identity before the cops -- or the murderer -- catch up with him. The story was made into a film called TWO IN THE DARK and the plot has been used in later films and books (notably Evan Hunter's BUDDWING and a British film called HYSTERIA) but no one has done it with the skill and style of Gelett Burgess.

Born on this day – Gail Patrick:

 

Gail Patrick

Actress

Producer

June 20, 1911 – July 6, 1980

Credits:

A Dream Comes True (1935); Artist and Models (1937); Bicentennial Minutes (1975); Brewster's Millions (1945); Calendar Girl (1947); Claudia and David (1946); Cool and Lam (1958); Cradle Song (1933); Dangerous to Know (1938); Death Takes a Holiday (1934); Disbarred (1939); Doubting Thomas (1935); Early to Bed (1936); Gallant Sons (1940); Gambling Ship (1933); Grand Jury Secrets (1939); Hit Parade of 1943 (1943); If I Had a Million (1932); John Meade's Woman (1937); Kathleen (1941); King of Alcatraz (1938); King of the Wild Horses (1947); Land of Liberty (1939); Love Crazy (1941); Mad About Music (1938); Mama Loves Papa (1933); Man of Conquest (1939); Meet the Stars #3: Variety Reel #1 (1941); Meet the Stars #6: Stars at Play (1941); Mississippi (1935); Murder at the Vanities (1934); Murder with Pictures (1936); Murders in the Zoo (1933); My Favorite Wife (1940); My Man Godfrey (1936); No More Ladies (1935); One Hour Late (1934); Perry Mason (1957–1966); Pick-up (1933); Picture People No. 2: Hollywood Sports (1941); Plainsman and the Lady (1946); Quiet Please: Murder (1942); Rendezvous with Annie (1946); Reno (1939); Rumba (1935); Screen Actors (1950); Screen Snapshots Series 15, No. 12 (1936); Screen Snapshots Series 19, No 6: Hollywood Recreations (1940); Screen Snapshots Series 19, No. 7: Wardrobe Designers (1940); Smart Girl (1935); Soaring Stars (1942); Stage Door (1937); Svengoolie (2016); Take the Stand (1934); Tales of Manhattan (1942); The Big Broadcast of 1936 (1935); The Big Parade of Comedy (1964); The Crime of Helen Stanley (1934); The Doctor Takes a Wife (1940); The Fashion Side of Hollywood (1935); The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939); The Inside Story (1948); The Lone Wolf Returns (1935); The Madonna's Secret (1946); The Merv Griffin Show (1972); The Mike Douglas Show (1970); The Mysterious Rider (1933); The New Perry Mason (1973–1974); The Phantom Broadcast (1933); The Preview Murder Mystery (1936); Threesome (2019); To the Last Man (1933); Twice Blessed (1945); Two Fisted (1935); Two in the Dark (1936); Unusual Occupations (1947); Up in Mabel's Room (1944); Voices in the Labyrinth (2019); Wagon Wheels (1934 / 1953); Wanderer of the Wasteland (1935); We Were Dancing (1942); White Hunter (1936); Wives Under Suspicion (1938); Women in Bondage (1943).