Night in New Orleans (1942)

The police lieutenant Steve Abbott is engrossed in a baffling murder case. As Steve pieces the clues together, he comes to the sobering conclusion that his own wife Ethel Abbott may be ... See full summary »

Director:

William Clemens

Writers:

James R. Langham (book), Jonathan Latimer

Stars:

Preston Foster, Patricia Morison, Albert Dekker

Cast

Credited cast:
Preston Foster	...	Police Lt. Steve Abbott
Patricia Morison	...	Ethel Abbott
Albert Dekker	...	Police Lieutenant William Richards
Charles Butterworth	...	Edward Wallace
Dooley Wilson	...	Shadrach Jones
Paul Hurst	...	Sergeant Casper Riordan
Jean Phillips	...	Janet Price
Cecil Kellaway	...	Dan Odell
William Wright	...	George Wallace
Noble Johnson	...	Carney
Joe Pope	...	Carlson
Yola d'Avril	...	Mme. Lamballe
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Arthur Loft	...	Sgt. Bliss

Storyline

The police lieutenant Steve Abbott is engrossed in a baffling murder case. As Steve pieces the clues together, he comes to the sobering conclusion that his own wife Ethel Abbott may be intimately involved in the murder. It even gets worse. Soon Steve himself is accused of the crime.

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Plot Keywords:

murder | based on book

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Genres:

Crime | Drama | Mystery

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Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

16 October 1943 (Sweden)

Also Known As:

A Canção do Mistério

Filming Locations:

Paramount Studios - 5555 Melrose Avenue, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA

Company Credits

Production Co:

Paramount Pictures

Technical Specs

Runtime:

75 min

Sound Mix:

Mono (Western Electric Mirrophonic Recording)

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

One of over 700 Paramount Productions, filmed between 1929 and 1949, which were sold to MCA/Universal in 1958 for television distribution, and have been owned and controlled by Universal ever since.

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Soundtracks

"Small Fry"
Music by Hoagy Carmichael
Lyrics by Frank Loesser

User Reviews

The usual stuff, nothing more

Not uninteresting, but not fantastic either. I did not know that William Clemens made films for Paramount Pictures, only Warner and RKO. OK, it's a routine mystery, private eye and investigation yarn. Preston Foster is very cool in this lead character, but as I said just before, you have already seen this a million times before. Jonathan Latimer wrote some stories for Paramount and a couple of John Farrow's films: THE BIG CLOCK, if I am not wrong. And of course he also wrote this one. An acceptable time waster, rare and worth watching.

We may expect some surprise that never come. That could have been cool too, for the audience, not the lead character.

Good standard little crime movie typically from the early forties.