One Dangerous Night ** (1942, Warren William, Eric Blore, Marguerite Chapman, Mona Barrie, Tala Birell) – Classic Movie Review 12,164

‘THE LONE WOLF GOES ON A WOMAN HUNT’ in the 1943 black and white crime thriller One Dangerous Night starring Warren William. 

‘THE LONE WOLF GOES ON A WOMAN HUNT’

Director Michael Gordon’s 1943 black and white crime thriller One Dangerous Night is the tenth Lone Wolf film produced by Columbia Pictures, and again stars Warren William, Marguerite Chapman and Eric Blore.

One Dangerous Night is another welcome Lone Wolf adventure, with polished performer Warren William back again as the smooth jewel thief turned detective Michael Lanyard, aka Lone Wolf, in a complicated but low-key tale about the killing of a jewel smuggler blackmailer, wealthy playboy Harry Cooper (Gerald Mohr). The mystery plot, as The Lone Wolf tries to clear his name of a charge of murdering the blackmailer, is moved along with the usual light humour and hint of thrills.

Marguerite Chapman is the romantic interest as Eve Andrews, and Eric Blore is the comic relief as Jamison, the Lone Wolf’s man Friday, among a good cast that also includes Mona Barrie, Tala Birell, Margaret Hayes, Ann Savage, Thurston Hall and Fred Kesley, with Warren Ashe as the film’s villain Sidney Shannon.

It is William’s seventh and penultimate film as the Lone Wolf, and the film debut of Ann Savage, who plays Lone Wolf’s acquaintance Vivian.

The screenplay by Donald Davis is based on a story by Arnold Lipp [Arnold Phillips] and Max Nosseck.

Filming took place from 10 September to 29 September 1942, and it was released in the US on 22 January 1943.

The cast are Warren William as Michael Lanyard, The Lone Wolf, Marguerite Chapman as Eve Andrews, Eric Blore as Jamison, Mona Barrie as Jane Merrick, Tala Birell as Sonia Beaudine, Margaret Hayes as Patricia Shannon, Ann Savage as Vivian, Thurston Hall as Inspector Crane, Warren Ashe as Sidney Shannon, Fred Kelsey as Dickens, Frank Sully as Hertzog, Eddie Marr as Mac, Louis Jean Heydt as Arthur and Gerald Mohr as Harry Cooper.

The following 22 films are The Lone Wolf movies: Cheaters at Play, Counter-Espionage, The False Faces, The Lone Wolf and His Lady, The Lone Wolf in London, The Lone Wolf in Mexico, The Lone Wolf in Paris, The Lone Wolf Keeps a Date, The Lone Wolf Meets a Lady, The Lone Wolf Returns (1926), The Lone Wolf Returns (1935), The Lone Wolf Spy Hunt, The Lone Wolf Strikes, The Lone Wolf Takes a Chance, The Lone Wolf (1917, lost), The Lone Wolf (1924, lost), The Lone Wolf’s Daughter (1919, surviving), The Lone Wolf’s Daughter (1929, lost), The Notorious Lone Wolf, One Dangerous Night, Passport to Suez, and Secrets of the Lone Wolf.

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