Night World (1932)Story of the goings-on at a Prohibition-era nightclub. Director:Hobart Henley |
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Title: Night World (1932)
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Cast
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| Lew Ayres | ... |
Michael Rand
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Ruth Taylor
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'Happy' MacDonald
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Dorothy Revier | ... |
Jill MacDonald
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Russell Hopton | ... |
Klauss
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| Hedda Hopper | ... |
Mrs. Rand
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| Clarence Muse | ... |
Tim Washington, the Doorman
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Dorothy Peterson | ... |
Edith Blair
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Bert Roach | ... |
Tommy
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Ed Powell
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Gene Morgan | ... |
Joe
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Huntley Gordon | ... |
Jim
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Robert Emmett O'Connor | ... |
The Policeman
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Arletta Duncan | ... |
Cigarette Girl
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"Happy" MacDonald and his unfaithful wife own a Prohibition era night club. On this eventful night, he is threatened by bootleggers, and the club's star dancer falls in love with a young socialite who drinks to forget a personal tragedy, among other incidents. Written by Anonymous
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Country:
USALanguage:
EnglishRelease Date:
5 May 1932 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
Vida Nocturna See more »Company Credits
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Mono (Western Electric Noiseless Recording Sound System)Color:
Black and WhiteAspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1
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(uncredited)
Music by Russ Columbo and Clarence Gaskill
Lyrics by Leo Robin
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The costumes of the chorus Girls in the second number (which ends act one) is reused from the "Happy Feet" number from King of Jazz See more »Quotes
Michael Rand: It seems to me that a mother has to earn her child's love and respect after their birth; not because of it.See more »
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"Prisoner of Love"(uncredited)
Music by Russ Columbo and Clarence Gaskill
Lyrics by Leo Robin
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Fun, saucy, fast-moving and short, Night World is a neat little movie from the early thirties, before Prohibition was repealed, when Hoover was still in the White House; and with a Depression still new there was yet a Gatsby mood in the cities.
The credits of this movie are unusual. Busby Berkeley did the choreography. Alfred Newman composed what music there is. The cast is oddball for any sort of film, but especially peculiar for this kind: Lew Ayres, Mae Clarke, Boris Karloff, Hedda Hopper, George Raft and Jack La Rue. Director Hobart Henley handles his material extremely well, and gives it pace and energy. There is joy, sadness, corruption, disillusionment and heartbreak in the movie, and the ending is bittersweet but not downbeat.