Night After Night (1932)
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(32 ratings)
In one of his first starring roles, George Raft plays Joe Anton, a tough but basically decent speakeasy owner who falls in love with Park Avenue socialite Miss Healy (Constance Cummings). Hoping to come up to the girl's social level, Joe starts taking lessons in speech and behavior from haughty… More In one of his first starring roles, George Raft plays Joe Anton, a tough but basically decent speakeasy owner who falls in love with Park Avenue socialite Miss Healy (Constance Cummings). Hoping to come up to the girl's social level, Joe starts taking lessons in speech and behavior from haughty dowager Mrs. Jellyman (Alison Skipworth). What he doesn't know is that Miss Healy pays attention to him only because he's living in the posh apartment where her family had resided before the Stock Market crash. Even so, the girl genuine falls in love with Joe when it appears as though he's about to desert her in favor of his ex-flame Iris Dawn (Wynne Gibson). A dreary retread of stock movie-drama themes, Night After Night would be utterly forgotten today were it not for the presence of Mae West, making her film debut. A scant few seconds after her first appearance, the generously bejeweled West is accosted by a hatcheck girl who coos "Goodness, what lovely diamonds." Swivelling those famous hips, La West replies expansively "Goodness had nothing to do with it, dearie." Commenting years later on Night After Night, George Raft, who suggested that Mae West be cast in the film, ruefully recalled "She stole everything but the cameras." ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Directed By
- Archie Mayo
- Genres
- Drama
Unrated,
- In Theaters
- Oct 30, 1932 Wide
- Studio
- Paramount Pictures
Critic Reviews
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Dennis Schwartz, Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Stiff George Raft gangster drama.
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Ken Hanke, Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Mae West's few scenes are what everyone remembers because they're what turn a stylish, but otherwise indifferent movie into something special -- something worth remembering.
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Cast
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George Raft
as Joe Anton
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Constance Cummings
as Jerry Healy
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Wynne Gibson
as Iris Dawn
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Mae West
as Maudie
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Alison Skipworth
as Mrs. Mabel Jellyman
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Roscoe Karns
as Leo
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Al Hill
as Blainey
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Louis Calhern
as Dick Bolton
- Mary Boland
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William "Wild Bill" Elliott
as Escort
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Marty Martyn
as Malloy
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Bradley Page
as Frankie Guard
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Dink Templeton
as Patsy
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Harry Wallace
as Jerky
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Tom Kennedy
as Tom
