All Through the Night (1942)

How sad is this?

Fantastic!

Absolutely Brilliant!

It is not deep, but it is fun to watch. It does have a bit more of an edge to it than other similar films.

Boggie made great classic movies,but this one certainly is not one of them,the mix of a serious matter with comedy it's too much,unconvincing plot driven the movie to a low degree,some scenes are really great like in Central Park,but the remains is poor saved by Boggie's charisma together with quite often perfection acting of Conrad Veitd and Peter Lorre...silly patriotic in time war!!l'd expected more!! Resume: First watch: 2017 / How many: 1 / Source: DVD / Rating: 7

Gloves Donahue (Humphrey Bogart) is the boss of a gambling gang. His favorite food is Miller's cheesecake. When Miller refuses to continue to help in a mysterious conspiracy, Pepi (Peter Lorre) kills him. A mysterious girl comes looking for Miller at the bakery. Gloves' mother is Miller's neighborhood friend and finds out that the mysterious girl is nightclub singer Leda Hamilton. Gloves takes up the case investigating the beautiful Leda. Her piano player turns out to be the killer Pepi. Joe from the nightclub barges in on Leda being manhandled by Pepi. Joe is shot and tells Gloves that they took Leda with his dying words. Gloves leaves his glove at the murder scene and he becomes the prime suspect. Gloves continues to investigating as he uncovers a Nazi plot of sabotage.This is fun little espionage crime drama. Bogart is what makes this works so well. Peter Lorre is as ever the perfect sweaty villain. Kaaren Verne is a functional damsel in distress. There is an easy sense of humor. It is broadly comedic to offset the serious nature of the war effort at the time. This is just a fun anti-Nazi adventure.

Great cast here-Bogie,Lorre, Veidt, Anderson, Phil Silvers(!) Jackie Gleason(!!) in early roles, character guys galore-Demarest, Frank Herbert, Barton Maclane, etc heck even the little bald hotel clerk, the chunky Santa like guy in the Auction audience and the varied Nazis all were in literally 100's of movies back when. You know'em all when you see'em.I saw this back to back w/ another similar propaganda flick from that era-Across the Pacific. Bogie nails the Nazis this time around, stopping a spy ring from blowing up a battle ship in NYC w/ a pack of dese, dem and dose type guys. You never Quite know how seriously to take this-what w/ the rather stereotyped Guido types on one hand and the Hitler salutes on the other. Much of this was tongue in cheek but noooooooot quite crossing into satire-land. There was a war on, after all.Couple of parts that make you cringe-the blonde gal is hit two or three times in the face, once for laughs(!) and they had a black valet shining Bogie's shoes and actually say, w/ a straight face-Things ain't as black as they seem-more or less. That-well it was hard to sit thru. You'd like to think they knew better.Do check it out though-it's (mostly) in fun and does move along quickly save for the last third, where it begins to wear out it's welcome. Bogie and Veidt esp. are worth the price of admission.*** outta ****

Investigating the murder of his cheesecake supplier, a sports promoter uncovers a Nazi spy ring in this tongue-in-cheek film that had the misfortune of being released the week of the Pearl Harbor bombing, when America was in no mood for a light-hearted movie about the Nazis. The film is quite amusing, thanks to the witty dialog and fast pace. Bogart is cool and playful as a shady character named "Gloves," and Demarest and McHugh provide most of the laughs as his sidekicks. Veidt, Lorre, and Anderson are appropriately vile as the Nazis. Of course Bogart, Veidt, and Lorre would reunite the following year for "Casablanca." Some of the scenes foreshadow "North by Northwest."