All Through the Night (1941)

User Rating:

7.1/10   

Director:

Vincent Sherman

Writers:

Leonard Spigelgass (screenplay) and
Edwin Gilbert (screenplay) ...
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Release Date:

2 December 1941 (USA)

Genre:

Action | Comedy | Drama | Thriller | War

Tagline:

Killer Bogart takes the Gestapo for a ride!

Plot:

Runyonesque Broadway gamblers turn patriotic when they stumble onto a cell of Nazi saboteurs.

Plot Keywords:

Nazi | Gambler | Gloves | Saboteur | Singer

Cast

Humphrey Bogart	...	Gloves Donahue
Conrad Veidt	...	Ebbing
Kaaren Verne	...	Leda Hamilton
Jane Darwell	...	Mrs. Donahue
Frank McHugh	...	Barney
Peter Lorre	...	Pepi
Judith Anderson	...	Madame
William Demarest	...	Sunshine
Jackie Gleason	...	Starchy (as Jackie C. Gleason)
Phil Silvers	...	Waiter
Wallace Ford	...	Spats Hunter (as Wally Ford)
Barton MacLane	...	Marty Callahan
Edward Brophy	...	Joe Denning
Martin Kosleck	...	Steindorff
Jean Ames	...	Annabelle
Ludwig Stössel	...	Mr. Miller (as Ludwig Stossel)
Irene Seidner	...	Mrs. Miller
James Burke	...	Forbes
Ben Welden	...	Smitty
Hans Schumm	...	Anton
Charles Cane	...	Sage
Frank Sully	...	Spence
Sam McDaniel	...	Deacon
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Louis V. Arco	...	Shortwave radio man (uncredited)
Leah Baird	...	Woman (uncredited)
Egon Brecher	...	Art gallery watchman (uncredited)
Walter Brooke	...	Reporter (uncredited)
Gertrude Carr	...	Mrs. Novak (uncredited)
Eddy Chandler	...	Police sergeant (uncredited)
Chester Clute	...	Westmore Hotel clerk (uncredited)
Clancy Cooper	...	Police sergeant (uncredited)
Roland Drew	...	Reporter (uncredited)
Al Eben	...	Pastry chef at Charlie's Restaurant (uncredited)
Dick Elliott	...	Husband of bidder who loses to Gloves (uncredited)
Chester Gan	...	One of Gloves' rescuers at Nazi meeting (uncredited)
Bud Geary	...	Callahan's henchman (uncredited)
Sol Gorss	...	Gunman at warehouse (uncredited)
Oscar 'Dutch' Hendrian	...	Callahan's bouncer (uncredited)
William Hopper	...	Reporter (uncredited)
Hans Joby	...	Watchman at warehouse (uncredited)
Robert Kimball	...	Ebbing's henchman (uncredited)
Mike Lally	...	Callahan's bouncer (uncredited)
Al Lloyd	...	Man at toy maneuvers discussion (uncredited)
Mira McKinney	...	Lady behind Gloves at auction (uncredited)
George Meeker	...	Reporter (uncredited)
Ray Montgomery	...	Reporter (uncredited)
Carl Ottmar	...	Lichtig, at meeting (uncredited)
Paul Panzer	...	Waiter (uncredited)
Emory Parnell	...	Policeman outside warehouse (uncredited)
Bob Perry	...	Callahan's henchman (uncredited)
Lee Phelps	...	The turnkey (uncredited)
Otto Reichow	...	Muller, meeting admittance guard (uncredited)
Cyril Ring	...	Reporter (uncredited)
Mary Servoss	...	Woman (uncredited)
Charles Sherlock	...	Ebbing's henchman (uncredited)
John Sinclair	...	Ebbing's henchman (uncredited)
John Stark	...	Ebbing's henchman (uncredited)
Charles Sullivan	...	Callahan's henchman (uncredited)
Don Turner	...	Policeman (uncredited)
Philip Van Zandt	...	Assistant auctioneer (uncredited)
Henry Victor	...	Meeting receptionist (uncredited)
Frederick Vogeding	...	Doctor, at meeting (uncredited)
Regina Wallace	...	Woman (uncredited)
Billy Wayne	...	Chef #2 at Charlie's Restaurant (uncredited)
Leo White	...	Chef #1 at Charlie's Restaurant (uncredited)
Lottie Williams	...	Lottie, the flower vendor (uncredited)
Charles C. Wilson	...	Police lieutenant at Miller's Home Bakery (uncredited)
Wolfgang Zilzer	...	Frascher, spy asked to steal plans (uncredited)

Directed by
Vincent Sherman

Writing credits
Leonard Spigelgass		(screenplay) and
Edwin Gilbert		(screenplay)
Leo Rosten		(story) (as Leonard Q. Ross) and
Leonard Spigelgass		(story)

Produced by
Jerry Wald	....	associate producer
Hal B. Wallis	....	executive producer

Original Music by
Adolph Deutsch
Heinz Roemheld		(uncredited)
Max Steiner		(uncredited)

Cinematography by
Sidney Hickox		(director of photography) (as Sid Hickox)

Film Editing by
Rudi Fehr

Art Direction by
Max Parker

Costume Design by
Howard Shoup		(gowns)

Makeup Department
Perc Westmore	....	makeup artist

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
William Kissell	....	assistant director (uncredited)

Sound Department
Oliver S. Garretson	....	sound

Special Effects by
Edwin B. DuPar	....	special effects (as Edwin A. DuPar)

Stunts
Bud Geary	....	stunts (uncredited)
Sol Gorss	....	stunts (uncredited)
Mike Lally	....	stunts (uncredited)
John Sinclair	....	stunts (uncredited)
Charles Sullivan	....	stunts (uncredited)
Ken Terrell	....	stunt double (uncredited)
Don Turner	....	stunts (uncredited)

Music Department
Leo F. Forbstein	....	musical director
Frank Perkins	....	orchestrator (uncredited)

Production Companies

• Warner Bros. Pictures (as Warner Bros.-First National Pictures)

Distributors

• Warner Bros. Pictures (1942) (USA) (theatrical)
• MGM Home Entertainment (1999) (USA) (video) (laserdisc)
• Warner Home Vidéo (2007) (France) (DVD)
• Warner Bros. (1949) (France) (theatrical)
• MGM/UA Home Entertainment (????) (USA) (VHS)
• Warner Home Video (2006) (USA) (DVD)
• Warner Home Video (????) (USA) (VHS)

Runtime:

107 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English | German

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono (RCA Sound System)

Certification:

Canada:PG (video rating) | Finland:K-16 | Sweden:15 | USA:Approved (PCA #7630)

Filming Locations:

Central Park, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA

Company:

Warner Bros. Pictures

Trivia:

Some cast members in studio records/casting call lists did not appear or were not identifiable in the movie. These were (with their character names, if any): Vera Lewis (Mrs. Fogerty), Creighton Hale (Waiter) and Stuart Holmes.

Goofs:

Continuity: 16 minutes into the movie, Gloves is sitting in an armchair. A glass is on the arm and it is clearly visible when the phone is brought to him. The edge of the glass is visible at the bottom of the screen through the phone call, but when Gloves stands up and the phone is brought away, the glass is no longer there.

Quotes:

Barney: Say, chief, can't I get away just long enough to give my girl a quick hello?
Alfred "Gloves" Donahue: No, stick around, will ya?
Starchie: What are you so nervous about? She'll keep!
Barney: That's what you think. I can't take a chance. The fleet's in and she's defense-minded!

Movie Connections:

Featured in Becoming Attractions: The Trailers of Humphrey Bogart (1997) (TV)

Soundtrack:

Blues in the Night

A curio from my youth

When I was a kid a local station had a package of films from the 30's and 40's it would run constantly. My young friends and I developed 6-8 favorites we would all congregate together to watch- everything in the neighborhood stopped for Errol Flynn, (Charge of the Light Brigade, The Sea Hawk, Santa Fe Trail, They Died With Their Boots On, Gentleman Jim, Objective Burma), or Abbott and Costello, (Buck Privates, A&C meet Et Al). The one Humphrey Bogart feature that I remember from this package is All Through the Night. I saw him in this years before Casablanca, The Maltese Falcon and the many other classics he was in.

I got my first chance to look at it in perhaps 40 years recently. It's a strange film in many ways, but still entertaining and a significant part of the Bogart film legacy even if it's far from a classic. We think the great stars just went from one classic to another because that's all we see but just as with modern stars, they made many movies like this between them that also rely on their appeal and mostly fulfill their assignment of entertaining the viewer. Those films should not be forgotten.

This film suffered from ill timing, taking a semi-comic spin on the Nazi threat only to be released just after Pearl Harbor. It must have been about as funny under those circumstances as Ishtar would have been on September 12th. As so many reviewers have commented it unites the Bowery Boys strain of humor, (by way of Damon Runyan) with a Fifth column plot such as we see in the same year's Saboteur, (both films make reference to the burning of the Normadie without actually naming it and say their set of villains was responsible). The Nazis seems to have seen Bogart's previous gangster flicks and consider him a dangerous criminal, (You're just like us…), but the film takes pains to depict him only as a gambler whose biggest vice is that he doesn't mind liberating out of town gamblers from their bankrolls with a crooked deck. He credits his skill with firearms to days he spent at Coney Island.

One interesting aspect is the reference to the Dachau concentration camp. I had thought the concentration camps were just rumored until they were liberated after the war. Maybe their true nature was not known until then. The heroine's father is supposed to have died of 'natural causes' there, if that's possible in such an unnatural place. This is surely the only time Dachau was ever mentioned in a film with any kind of comedic element.

The film is a mother lode of noted character actors and soon to be famous comics, including these future TV icons, Jackie 'C' Gleason and Phil Silvers. It has the pace of a 'B' but the length of and 'A' film. Towards the end you can't believe how much has happened and presume the film must have lasted 3 hours. Some of the dialog is corny but most of it is funny. Frank McHugh gets stuck on his wedding night hanging out with William Demarest and complains about it. Bill tells him 'I can cook!' Maybe he was looking forward to cooking for the Douglases on My Three Sons.

I was pleased to see how many reviewers noted the similarities in the plot of this and North by Northwest, with the auction scene and the police being led to the headquarters of the fifth columnists only to find nothing of interest. Always borrow from the best- or at least the pretty good, such as this.