History Is Made at Night (1937)

Calificación de los usuarios:

7.3/10   

Director:

Frank Borzage

Writers:

C. Graham Baker (writer)
David Hertz (additional dialogue)
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Release Date:

5 marzo 1937 (USA)

Genre:

Drama | Romance

Plot:

Divorcee Irene Vail falls for a charming Parisian, but her insanely jealous ex-husband will do anything to get her back...

Plot Keywords:

Beautiful Woman | Paris | Kidnapping | Infidelity | Deception

Comentarios de los usuarios:

Obsessive Jealousy

Cast

Charles Boyer	...	Paul Dumond
Jean Arthur	...	Irene Vail
Leo Carrillo	...	Cesare
Colin Clive	...	Bruce Vail
Ivan Lebedeff	...	Michael Browsky - Vail's Chauffeur
George Meeker	...	Mr. Norton
Lucien Prival	...	Private Detective
George Davis	...	Maestro
listado alfabético del resto del reparto:
Bobby Barber	...	Paul - Waiter at Victor's (uncredited)
Phyllis Barry	...	Bit Part (uncredited)
Joseph E. Bernard	...	Headwaiter at Victor's (uncredited)
Barlowe Borland	...	Clumsy Waiter at Cesare's (uncredited)
Harvey Clark	...	Victor (uncredited)
Dora Clement	...	Dowager (uncredited)
Adrienne D'Ambricourt	...	French Woman (uncredited)
Harry Depp	...	Waiting Customer at Victor's (uncredited)
Edward Earle	...	Ship's Officer Talking to Capt. Alden (uncredited)
Byron Foulger	...	Vail's Employee Reading Newspaper (uncredited)
Roger Gray	...	Detective Finding Irene (uncredited)
Tim Holt	...	S.O.S. Radio Operator (uncredited)
George Humbert	...	Chef on Ship (uncredited)
Payne B. Johnson	...	Boy on ship (uncredited)
Jeannette Kerner	...	Hat Check Girl (uncredited)
Tetsu Komai	...	S.O.S. Radio Operator (uncredited)
Rollo Lloyd	...	Reservations Man at Victor's (uncredited)
John Marston	...	Capt. Alden (uncredited)
Helene Millard	...	Mrs. Vaughan (uncredited)
Carlyle Moore Jr.	...	Wireless Operator (uncredited)
Jack Mulhall	...	Waiter (uncredited)
David Newell	...	Passenger with Lifejacket (uncredited)
Barry Norton	...	Bit Part (uncredited)
Robert Parrish	...	Passenger on Ship (uncredited)
Russ Powell	...	Chef with Mustache (uncredited)
Georges Renavent	...	Insp. Millard (uncredited)
Jack Richardson	...	Wireless Operator (uncredited)
Tom Ricketts	...	Old Man Getting in Lifeboat (uncredited)
William Stack	...	Vail's Attorney (uncredited)
Adele St. Mauer	...	Hotel Maid (uncredited)
Pierre Watkin	...	Cmmdre. Eldridge (uncredited)
Señor Wences	...	'Coco' Hand Trick Performer (uncredited)
Charles Williams	...	Room Service Waiter on Ship (uncredited)

Dirigida por
Frank Borzage

Créditos del guión (in alphabetical order)
C. Graham Baker		writer (as Graham Baker)
Frank Borzage		uncredited
David Hertz		additional dialogue
Vincent Lawrence		additional dialogue
Gene Towne		writer

Producida por
Walter Wanger	....	producer

Fotografía por
David Abel
Gregg Toland		(uncredited)

Montaje por
Margaret Clancey

Dirección artística
Alexander Toluboff

Diseño de vestuario por
Bernard Newman

Ayudante de dirección
Lew Borzage	....	assistant director
Arthur Ripley	....	second unit director (uncredited)

Departamento de sonido
Paul Neal	....	sound

Efectos especiales
James Basevi	....	special technical effects

Music Department
Alfred Newman	....	musical director

Otros miembros del equipo
Walter Wanger	....	presenter
Joshua Logan	....	dialogue director (uncredited)

Production Companies

• Walter Wanger Productions

Distributors

• United Artists (1937) (USA) (theatrical)
• Masterpiece Productions (1948) (USA) (theatrical) (re-release)
• Masterpiece Productions (1950) (USA) (TV)
• ClassicLine (2006) (Brazil) (DVD)
• MGM/UA Home Entertainment (USA) (VHS)

También conocida como:

Cena de medianoche (Spain) [es]

Duración:

97 min

País:

USA

Idioma:

Italian | English

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Sonido:

Mono (Western Electric Noiseless Recording)

Clasificación:

Finland:K-16 | USA:Approved (PCA #3101)

Company:

Walter Wanger Productions

Movie Connections:

Featured in Going Hollywood: The '30s (1984)

Soundtrack:

Nearer My God To Thee

Obsessive Jealousy

Colin Clive is one obsessed man. Insanely jealous of wife Jean Arthur's imaginary lovers, he still won't let her go in divorce. Before Arthur's got a real one in head waiter Charles Boyer.

History Is Made At Night is another one of Frank Borzage's romantic films with tender lovers and lots of soft focus cinematography. A common thread that seems to run in Borzage's films is forces that threaten to keep intended folks apart. This is true in Three Comrades and The Mortal Storm where it is the political situation in Germany of the twenties and thirties respectively. In History Is Made At Night, what keeps them apart is Boyer's conscience.

Colin Clive as the husband is a multimillion dollar owner of transoceanic ship line who sets a trap trying to catch Arthur in a compromising position. When total stranger Boyer walks in and breaks up the trap and hits Clive's chauffeur a few times, Clive being the obsessed fellow he is, kills the chauffeur and says a burglar did it.

Of course Boyer thinks he did it and when he finds out the Paris police are looking for him, he and Arthur go back to Paris from New York where they have run away to. They have the bad luck to be on one of Clive's ships where from a distance he controls the fate of all.

Boyer and Arthur make a beautiful couple in love. However a biography of Jean Arthur assures us there was nothing to anything about that.

This was also Colin Clive's farewell film. Sadly he died a few months after this film was out. Known primarily for being Baron Frankenstein, creator of the undead, he was so much more than that as this film aptly demonstrates.

We also can't forget Leo Carrillo who plays chef Caesar who aids and abets Boyer and Arthur's romance. Carrillo was a guy who always added something to any film he was in.

If tender romance and ship board excitement are your thing than History Is Made At Night is your film indeed.