Blues in the Night (1941)

Calificación de los usuarios:

6.7/10   

Director:

Anatole Litvak

Escritores:

Edwin Gilbert (play)
Robert Rossen (writer)

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

15 noviembre 1941 (USA)

Género:

Drama | Cine Negro | Musical

Frase comercial:

2 GRAND BANDS! JIMMY LUNCEFORD'S and WILL OSBORNE'S! MUSIC GALORE! (original print media ad - mostly caps)

Plot:

"Jigger' Lane forms a band that includes singer Ginger 'Character' Powell, wife of the trumpeter Leo Powelll...

Plot Keywords:

Band | Singer | Roadhouse | Boxcar | Blues Music

Premios:

Nominated for Oscar.

Comentarios de los usuarios:

Good music, unmemorable story line

Reparto

Priscilla Lane	...	Ginger 'Character' Powell
Betty Field	...	Kay Grant
Richard Whorf	...	Jigger Pine
Lloyd Nolan	...	Del Davis
Jack Carson	...	Leo Powell
Wallace Ford	...	Brad Ames (as Wally Ford)
Elia Kazan	...	Nickie Haroyen
Peter Whitney	...	Pete Bossett
Billy Halop	...	Peppi
Howard Da Silva	...	Sam Paryas
Joyce Compton	...	Blonde dancing with drunk
Herbert Heywood	...	Brakeman
George Lloyd	...	Joe (St. Louis cafe owner)
Charles C. Wilson	...	Barney (as Charles Wilson)
Matt McHugh	...	Drunk

También conocida como:

Hot Nocturne (USA) (working title)
New Orleans Blues (USA) (working title)

Duración:

88 min

País:

USA

Idioma:

Inglés

Color:

Negro y Blanco

Relación de Aspecto:

1.37 : 1

Sonido:

Mono (RCA Sound System)

Clasificación:

USA:Approved (PCA #7503) | USA:Passed (National Board of Review) | Australia:G

Compañía:

Warner Bros. Pictures

Trivialidades:

John Garfield turned down the role of Jigger Pine. In Thank Your Lucky Stars (1943), Mr. Garfield would parody the already classic, Oscar-nominated song for 1941, "Blues in the Night" (music by Harold Arlen, lyrics by Johnny Mercer).

Banda de Sonido:

Hang on to Your Lids, Kids

Good music, unmemorable story line

The blues and swing music are quite good, what there was of it. Unfortunately the music keeps getting interrupted by the sort of sappy story that Hollywood usually attached to films that were billed as musicals.

Down and out musicians, riding the rails like hobos, decide to form a band at Depression's end, but they keep getting involved with gangsters, stupid club owners and a woman of very questionable morals who would break up their happy family. There's a good girl, of course, a blond singer who belongs to a philandering trumpet player. Oh, what's the use--no one would watch this for the story or to see Jack Carson or Lloyd Nolan or the rest of them.

If only there had been more of the music and less of what some might call "drama," and what I would call fast talking, poor acting treacle.