All Through the Night (film)
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| Directed by | Vincent Sherman |
| Produced by |
Hal B. Wallis Jerry Wald |
| Screenplay by |
Leonard Spigelgass Edwin Gilbert |
| Story by |
Leo Rosten Leonard Spigelgass |
| Starring |
Humphrey Bogart Conrad Veidt Kaaren Verne |
| Music by |
Adolph Deutsch (score) Song: "All Through the Night" Arthur Schwartz (music) Johnny Mercer (lyrics) |
| Cinematography | Sidney Hickox |
| Edited by | Rudi Fehr |
Production company |
Warner Bros. Pictures |
Release dates |
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Running time | 107 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $600,000[1] |
All Through the Night is a light-hearted thriller film released by Warner Brothers in 1941, 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 Stossel) 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
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Cast notes
- Phil Silvers and Jackie Gleason owe their presence in the film to the direct intervention of Warner Bros. studio head Jack 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.[1]
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.[1] Olivia De Havilland and Marlene Dietrich were considered for the female lead.[2]
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.[1]
See also
References
Notes
External links
- All Through the Night at the Internet Movie Database
- All Through the Night at the TCM Movie Database
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