All Through the Night (film)
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| Directed by | Vincent Sherman |
| Screenplay by | Leonard Spigelgass Edwin Gilbert |
| Story by | Leo Rosten Leonard Spigelgass |
| Produced by | Hal B. Wallis Jerry Wald |
| Starring | Humphrey Bogart Conrad Veidt Kaaren Verne |
| Cinematography | Sidney Hickox |
| Edited by | Rudi Fehr |
| Music by | Adolph Deutsch (score) Song: "All Through the Night" Arthur Schwartz (music) Johnny Mercer (lyrics) |
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Running time | 107 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $600,000[2] |
| Box office | $1.1 million (US rentals)[3] |
All Through the Night is a light-hearted thriller film released by Warner Brothers in 1942, starring Humphrey Bogart, Conrad Veidt and Kaaren Verne, and featuring many of the Warner Bros. company of character actors. It was directed by Vincent Sherman.
Plot
An elderly baker named Miller (Ludwig Stössel) is murdered by a sinister stranger (Peter Lorre). A trail leads on to a nightclub singer, Leda Hamilton (Kaaren Verne) who reveals that she and Miller have been in thrall to an organization of Nazi fifth columnists led by Ebbing (Conrad Veidt). She is helped by a well-meaning sports promoter, Alfred "Gloves" Donahue (Humphrey Bogart), who himself is suspected of murdering a nightclub owner (Edward Brophy), and has to track down those responsible to prove his innocence.
Cast
- Humphrey Bogart as Alfred "Gloves" Donahue
- Conrad Veidt as Ebbing
- Kaaren Verne as Leda Hamilton
- Jane Darwell as Mrs. Donahue
- Frank McHugh as Barney
- Peter Lorre as Pepi
- Judith Anderson as Madame
- William Demarest as Sunshine
- Jackie Gleason as Starchy
- Phil Silvers as Waiter
- Wallace Ford as Spats Hunter
- Barton MacLane as Marty Callahan
- Edward Brophy as Joe Denning
- Martin Kosleck as Steindorf
- Jean Ames as Annabelle
- Ludwig Stössel as Mr. Miller
- Irene Seidner as Mrs. Miller
- James Burke as Forbes
- Ben Welden as Smitty
- Hans Schumm as Anton
- Charles Cane as Sage
- Frank Sully as Spence
- Sam McDaniel as Deacon
Cast notes
- Jackie Gleason and Wallace Ford are billed as "Jackie C. Gleason" and "Wally Ford" respectively.
- Phil Silvers and Jackie Gleason owe their presence in the film to the direct intervention of Warner Bros. studio head Jack L. Warner, who personally phoned director Vincent Sherman to ensure that they would be added to the cast.
- Kaaren Verne and Peter Lorre married in 1945, and divorced in 1950.
Production
Producer Hal Wallis made All Through the Night as a "companion piece" to his earlier anti-Nazi melodrama, Underground, despite the poor box office of the prior film.[2]
Humphrey Bogart was not the first person considered for the lead in the film: it was originally supposed to be played by Walter Winchell, the noted gossip columnist who would later be the narrator for the TV series The Untouchables. When Winchell could not get the time off to make the film, Wallis offered it to George Raft, and then, when Raft turned it down, to Bogart.[2] Olivia De Havilland and Marlene Dietrich were considered for the female lead.[4]
The scene in which Bogart and William Demarest confuse a room full of Nazi sympathizers with doubletalk was not part of the original script, but was invented by director Sherman, who filmed it despite the objections of producer Wallis. Wallis ordered it removed from the film, but Sherman left a small segment of it in, and when preview audiences reacted positively to it, Wallis backed down and told Sherman to put the entire scene back in.[2]
Reception
Bosley Crowther of The New York Times gave the film a mostly positive review, writing: "In spite of its slap-bang construction and its hour-and-three-quarters length, the picture does move with precision and steadily maintained suspense ... 'All Through the Night' is not exactly a melodrama out of the top drawer, but it is a super-duper action picture — mostly duper, when you stop to think."[5] Variety wrote: "Somewhat on the lurid side and with the Nazi menace motif of familiar timber, shortcomings are compensated for by fast-moving continuity which smartly builds suspense and hold (sic) attention."[6] Film Daily called it a "fast-moving and exciting melodrama."[7] Russell Maloney of The New Yorker panned the film, writing that "Hitchcock himself couldn't have asked for a better plot," but claiming that it was brought down by "the feebleness of invention, the wordiness of the dialogue, [and] the sluggishly paced direction."[8]
See also
References
Notes
- ^ Hanson, Patricia King, ed. (1999). The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States: Feature Films, 1941-1950. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. p. 55. ISBN 0-520-21521-4.
- ^ a b c d Frankel, Mark. "All Through the Night" (article) on TCM.com
- ^ "101 Pix Gross in Millions" Variety 6 Jan 1943 p 58
- ^ "Notes" on TCM.com
- ^ Crowther, Bosley (January 24, 1942). "Movie Review - All Through the Night". The New York Times. Retrieved January 13, 2015.
- ^ "Film Reviews". Variety. New York: Variety, Inc. December 3, 1941. p. 8.
- ^ "Reviews of the New Films". Film Daily. New York: Wid's Films and Film Folk, Inc.: 7 January 28, 1942.
- ^ Maloney, Russell (January 31, 1942). "The Current Cinema". The New Yorker. New York: F-R Publishing Corp. p. 49.
External links
- All Through the Night at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films
- All Through the Night at IMDb
- All Through the Night at the TCM Movie Database