BLUES IN THE NIGHT

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• Release Year: 1941
• Genre: Drama, Film-Noir, Musical
• Plot: They're payin' the dues and livin' the blues.; ; Another night, another club. Jigger Pine's quintet is sockin' 'em solid before hopping a boxcar to the next gig. Not much money in this life. But plenty of tumult involving a criminal (Lloyd Nolan), a songbird (Priscilla Lane), a siren (Betty Field) and those Bules in the Night (the famed title tune and other songs are by Harold Arlen and Johnny Mercer). Anatole Litvak (The Snake Pit) directs this work packed with future filmmakers: scripter RobertRossen (The Hustler), actors-turned-directors Richard Wharf (numerous TV series) and Elia Kozan (A Streetcar Named Desire), and Don Siegel (Dirty Harry), who provides the film's montages. Check your pulse if one of Siegel's inventive sequences diesn't provoke gasps of amazement!
• Cast: Priscilla Lane, Betty Field, Richard Whorf, Lloyd Nolan, Jack Carson, Wallace Ford, Elia Kazan, Peter Whitney, Billy Halop, Howard Da Silva, Joyce Compton, Herbert Heywood, George Lloyd, Charles C. Wilson, Matt McHugh, Jimmie Lunceford and His Orchestra, Will Osborne's Orchestra, William 'Bill' Phillips, Jean Ames, Leah Baird, Brooks Benedict, Wade Boteler, Hal K. Dawson, Dudley Dickerson, John Dilson, Faith Domergue, Roland Drew, Ann Edmonds, Faye Emerson, William Gillespie, David Gorcey, Sol Gorss, Eddie Graham, Harrison Greene, Creighton Hale, John Hamilton, Robert Homans, William Hopper, Charles Irwin, Edward Keane, Fred Kelsey, Jimmie Lunceford, Hank Mann, Frank Mayo, Patrick McVey, Jack Mower, Louis Natheaux, George Offerman Jr., Lee Phelps, John J. Richardson, Cyril Ring, Cliff Saum, Napoleon Simpson, Juanita Stark, Elliott Sullivan, Mabel Todd, Emmett Vogan, Anthony Warde, Billy Wayne, Ernest Whitman, Anatole Litvak, Edwin Gilbert, Robert Rossen
• Director: Anatole Litvak
• Runtime: 1:28
• Company: Warner Bros
• Media Format: Movie