Tuesday, July 14, 2020

Good Night!


NIGHT WORLD-1932-The wild world of NYC in the prohibition era. Bright lights, speakeasies, mob rub outs and lots of frolicking in Happy's night club.There's lots going on. 

Owner Happy (Boris Karloff)) is a charming gangster whose wife (Dorothy Revier) is having an affair with Krause (Russel Hopton). John Rand (Lew Ayres) is a drunkard because his mother (Hedda Hopper) killed his father. He's befriended by Ruth (Karloff's FRANKENSTEIN co-star Mae Clarke), a dancer at the club. Ed Powell (George Raft) is a sleazy suspicious character who tries to date Ruth. I really didn't get the story line of the philosophical doorman (Clarence Muse) with a sick wife and what happens to him. One gay character calls a drunk Frankenstein! (That movie was made the year before) The entire movie takes place in the club. Hobart Henley directed this entertaining but ignored little gangster film from Universal.

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