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 |
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107 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $600,000 |
| Box office | $1.1 million (US rentals) |
All Through the Night is a light-hearted thriller film released by Warner Brothers in 1942, 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.
Alfred "Gloves" Donahue (Humphrey Bogart), a big-shot Broadway gambler, is alerted by his mother, 'Ma' Donahue (Jane Darwell), that her neighbor, Mr. Miller (Ludwig Stossel), a baker who makes Gloves' favorite cheesecake, is missing. Upon searching the bakery, Gloves finds Miller's dead body. A young singer, Leda Hamilton (Kaaren Verne), quickly leaves the shop upon hearing about Miller's demise. Mrs. Donahue believes that the girl knows something and tracks her down to a night club, where she creates a racket by "crabbing" about Miller's death. Co-partner of the Duchess Club, Marty Callahan (Barton MacLane), calls Gloves, insisting that he come down and take care of the situation. While at the club, Gloves has a drink with Leda that is interrupted by her piano player, Pepi (Peter Lorre), who takes her away to a back room, where he shoots Marty's partner, Joe Denning (Edward Brophy). Lena and Pepi then disappear in a taxi as Gloves stumbles upon Joe. Before dying, Joe raises up five fingers to indicate who took Leda. Gloves quickly leaves to search for Leda, inadvertently leaving one of his gloves at the murder scene.
While being suspected of Joe's murder by Marty and the police, Gloves traces the taxi to an antique/auction house, named I.J. Madison, Inc. Importers and Exporters, operated by Hall Ebbing (Conrad Veidt) and his assistant, Madame (Judith Anderson). While posing as a bidder in the successful acquisition of a desk, Gloves is recognized by Pepi. He subsequently gets knocked-out by Leda, tied up, and left in a storage room with one of his boys, Sunshine (William Demarest), who was earlier captured. Later, Leta visits them, enabling them to break free from their ropes before they are packed up in crates and shipped out. Before escaping, Gloves and Sunshine walk into a room with maps, charts, a short-wave radio, and a portrait of Adolf Hitler, now knowing that their captors are "fivers" or Nazi fifth columnists, which is what Joe was indicating before he died. Gloves finds a notebook and reads Miller's name in it as well as that of "Leda Hamilton", her Jewish name "Uda Hammel", and the death of her father "Ludwig Hammel" at the Dachau concentration camp.
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