Captain Carey, U.S.A.
| Captain Carey, U.S.A. | |
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| Directed by | Mitchell Leisen |
| Screenplay by | Robert Thoeren |
| Based on | After Midnight by Martha Albrand |
| Produced by | Richard Maibaum |
| Starring | Alan Ladd Wanda Hendrix Francis Lederer |
| Cinematography | John F. Seitz |
| Edited by | Alma Macrorie |
| Music by | Hugo Friedhofer |
| Color process | Black and white |
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| Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
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Running time | 83 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Box office | $1,625,000 |
Captain Carey, U.S.A. (released as After Midnight in the United Kingdom) is a 1950 American Paramount Pictures crime thriller directed by Mitchell Leisen and starring Alan Ladd and Wanda Hendrix. The film is based on the 1948 novel After Midnight by Martha Albrand.
The theme song, "Mona Lisa", is first performed in the film by Sergio de Karlo and is a recurrent motif throughout. Jay Livingston and Ray Evans won the Academy Award for Best Original Song, and the song became a #1 hit for Nat King Cole.
Although Ladd plays an O.S.S. officer in Captain Carey, U.S.A. and had starred in O.S.S. (1946), the two films are not otherwise related.