An Hour Before Dawn

An Hour Before Dawn is a lost^[1] 1913 silent film detective drama directed by J. Searle Dawley and starring Laura Sawyer and House Peters. It was the fifth of six "Kate Kirby's Cases" detective stories made in 1913, the second produced by the Famous Players Film Company after Dawley and Sawyer left Edison for Famous Players.^[2]

An Hour Before Dawn
Directed by	J. Searle Dawley
Produced by	Adolph Zukor
Distributed by	State's Rights
Release date	October 20, 1913 (1913-10-20)
Running time	4 reels
Country	USA
Language	Silent with English titles

Cast

• Laura Sawyer as Kate Kirby
• House Peters as Kate's father, the Ex-Detective
• Edward Earle as Professor Wallace, the Inventor
• William C. Chamberlin as Richard Wallace as the Son

Kate Kirby's cases

• The Diamond Crown. (Edison – 1913)
• On the Broad Stairway. (Edison – 1913)
• The Substitute Stenographer. (Edison – 1913)
• Chelsea 7750. (Famous Players - 1913)
• An Hour Before Dawn. (Famous Players - 1913)
• The Port of Doom. (Famous Players - 1913)