Night After Night (1932)

Calificación de los usuarios:

6.8/10   

Director:

Archie Mayo

Escritores:

Louis Bromfield (novel)
Vincent Lawrence (writer)

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

30 octubre 1932 (USA)

Género:

Drama

Frase comercial:

MISS JELLYMAN (Alison Skipworth) - All her life she longed for happiness - and found it teaching a gangster how to be a gentleman! (original lobby card 5)

Plot:

A successful ex-boxer buys a high-class speakeasy and falls for a rich society girl, who doesn't know about his past. Complications ensue when some ex-girlfriends from his boxing days show up. |

Plot Keywords:

Sexually Aggressive Woman | Prohibition | Based On Novel

Comentarios de los usuarios:

Under-rated package of rare delights!

Reparto

George Raft	...	Joe Anton
Constance Cummings	...	Miss Jerry Healy
Wynne Gibson	...	Iris Dawn
Mae West	...	Maudie Triplett
Alison Skipworth	...	Miss Mabel Jellyman
Roscoe Karns	...	Leo
Louis Calhern	...	Dick Bolton
Bradley Page	...	Frankie Guard
Al Hill	...	Blainey
Harry Wallace	...	Jerky
George Templeton	...	Patsy (as Dink Templeton)
Marty Martyn	...	Malloy
Tom Kennedy	...	Tom (the bartender)

También conocida como:

Noche tras noche (Spain) [es]

Duración:

73 min

País:

USA

Idioma:

Inglés

Color:

Negro y Blanco

Relación de Aspecto:

1.37 : 1

Sonido:

Mono (Western Electric Noiseless Recording)

Compañía:

Paramount Pictures

Trivialidades:

One of over 700 Paramount Productions, filmed between 1929 and 1949, which were sold to MCA/Universal in 1958 for television distribution, and have been owned and controlled by Universal ever since.

Citas:

Frankie Guard: You'll happen to have some visitors one of these nights.
Joe Anton: Heh, heh! Well, that's really funny! Will you do me a favor, Frankie?
Frankie Guard: Sure, Joe, anytime.
Joe Anton: Will you tell Gaston and his mob the sooner they come around, the better I'll like it? You know these quiet evenings are getting on my nerves, and a little excitement would be as welcome as the flowers in May.
Frankie Guard: I'll tell him that, Joe.
Joe Anton: Don't forget.
Frankie Guard: Leave it to me, and speaking of flowers, what sort would you prefer?
Joe Anton: Oh, anything at all except pansies.
[...]

Conexiones de Película:

Apareció en 100 Years of Comedy (1997) (V)

Under-rated package of rare delights!

I was expecting a lousy film whose only value was as the debut film of Mae West - I mean Leonard calls it a "crashing bore"! But what I got was a delightful film, excellently acted by all, with a profound theme and great dialogue. It is a film about dissatisfaction - all the characters are unhappy with their lot and desperately grasping for change. George Raft, the slick gangster, wants an education and true love. Constance Cummings also wants true love, although she thinks she wants security. And Alison Skipworth wants the wild life instead of school teacher drudgery. Only Mae West seems happy with her place as a man-devouring cosmetician.

This film is not a comedy - although it has many hilarious scenes (wait until you see West and Skipworth in bed together!). It is a frank and insightful drama, very risque and dangerously sexual. George Raft is unusually sensitive, Constance Cummings outstanding and Alison Skipworth dazzling. The supporting cast is also fine - led by the incomparable Mae West. A rare treat from the early 1930's.