All Through the Night **** (1942, Humphrey Bogart, Conrad Veidt, Kaaren Verne, Peter Lorre, Judith Anderson) – Classic Movie Review 10,597

‘Gangdom turns its gats on the Gestapo.’

Director Vincent Sherman’s wisecracking 1942 Warner Bros black and white crime mystery thriller All Through the Night stars Humphrey Bogart as Broadway gambler ‘Gloves’ Donahue, who leads the chase for New York Nazis named Ebbing, Pepi and Madame (Conrad Veidt, Peter Lorre and Judith Anderson), who plan to blow up a battleship in the city’s harbour. Kaaren Verne also stars as nightclub singer Leda Hamilton, seen leaving the bakery of his favourite cheesecake, whose baker has been killed.

All Through the Night is an enthralling tale in the revered company of these all-time choice players, both star and supporting actors, every one a winner.

Leonard Spigelgass and Edwin Gilbert’s humorous-toned, exciting screenplay thoroughly involves and amuses, and there are ripe and juicy but always well-calculated performances, while Sherman directs adroitly at a fast lick with plenty of tension and atmosphere.

All Through the Night is far less well-known and less often played than most films from Bogart’s prime, but it is still pretty marvellous.

Also in the cast are Jane Darwell, Frank McHugh, Jackie Gleason, William Demarest, Phil Silvers, Wallace Ford, Barton MacLane, Edward Brophy, Martin Kosleck, Jean Ames, Ludwig Stossel, James Burke, Ben Welden and Frank Sully.

It was made some way from New York at Warner Brothers Burbank Studios, 4000 Warner Boulevard, Burbank, California.

All Through the Night is directed by Vincent Sherman, runs 107 minutes, is made and released by Warner Brothers, is written by Leonard Spigelgass and Edwin Gilbert, based on a story by Leonard Spigelgass and Leo Rosten, is shot in black and white by Sid Hickox, is produced by Jerry Wald and scored by Adolph Deutsch.

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