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| Blues in the Night | 
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| Director: Anatole Litvak
Actors: Priscilla Lane, Betty Field, Richard Whorf, Lloyd Nolan, Jack Carson
Studio: Warner Home Video
Category: DVD
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Avg. Customer Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 32794
Format: Black & White, Dolby, Dvd-video, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 88
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: WARD035845D
UPC: 883929003242
EAN: 0883929003242
ASIN: B0016OM3TK
Theatrical Release Date: 1941
Release Date: July 22, 2008
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Product Description
Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 07/22/2008 Run time: 92 minutes
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 Could have been a lot better October 20, 2008
This movie has a great premise and story--too bad the director couldn't make it work. I wanted to like this movie, with its noirish cinematography and jazz storyline, but it falls short of being a good film. It has a good cast of character actors from the '40s, and the cinematography of some scenes is excellent. But it misses in the telling of its story--it's too thin and the melodrama is forced, and the story seems to keep making sharp turns without providing a smooth narrative.
(Spoilers follow.) There's no allusion to the emotional feelings the main character, Jigger, has for Kay Grant, the sharply edged would-be singer, until he tells her he loves her, which seems to come out of the blue. And this storyline could have made for a dramatic love triangle (with the gangster played by Lloyd Nolan) if it were better developed and conveyed in the plot. Leo and Ginger's loss of their child is just casually sloughed off for something that should have been more dramatic. The gangster's murder is also ignored and another sharp turn puts the band back on the rails. The film has too much of a slapdash feel.
The scenes dramatizing Jigger's fall into mental illness were excellent, as well as the noir-like setup of several scenes. Overall, this film had a lot of potential that was just ignored. It also seems as if the studio didn't want commit major stars to the film, and the result is a pedestrian handling of material that could have been better.
just not a very good movie September 11, 2008
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
I had high hopes for this one, especially since the reviews were good and Warners made some great films during this period. I tried my best to like it, but the acting was melodramatic, and script was not very good, and the story not very original. Obviously, the title song is a classic and the big band music was great, but that wasn't quite enough for me. The extras are the only reason I'm keeping the movie.
 "My mama done tol' me..." Arlen and Mercer hit a home run, but the movie just barely gets around second base August 27, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
It's hard to decide which is the most awkward part of this slightly noirish movie...the beginning, the middle or the end. The beginning features five white musicians and a girl singer who decide to form a special kind of band, led by the impassioned piano player. "It's gotta be our kind of music, our kind of band...the blues, the real blues...the kind that comes out of people, real people...their hopes and their dreams...." The middle features these six riding a box car, becoming entangled with a rough gangster who befriends them, a tough-as-nails femme fatale who does not, and a roadhouse success in New Jersey. The end features a nervous breakdown, a dead baby, a shooting, a car ride to death and another box car. You know, the usual blues stuff. Along the way there is some impassioned dialogue.
What Blues in the Night has going for it are songs by Harold Arlen and Johnny Mercer, including one great song, "This Time the Dreams on Me" and one they knocked out of the ball park, perhaps the best popular blues song ever written, "Blues in the Night." The movie also features another first-rate performance by Lloyd Nolan as the gangster. I wonder if any other actor appeared in so many flawed A movies or just plain B moves but who invariably gave believable, notable performances. There are several musical numbers that stand out. We also have the chance to see Betty Field, a first-rate actress who wasn't as successful in Hollywood as she was on Broadway. She plays the femme fatale, complete with bad grammar and the kind of sexy selfishness that can lead a man to bed at night and leave him alone with an empty wallet the next morning. She's brittle and hard here, but her strong suit as an actress, I think, was the fragile vulnerability and warmth she could project. After her role in this movie, the next year she played the doomed Cassie in Kings Row, two performances as different as a prostitute's embrace is from a tremulous first kiss. The movie also has the curiosity value of featuring Elia Kazan in his last acting role. He plays the band's hyperactive young clarinetist whose mother wants him to be a lawyer. Kazan and the film's screenwriter, Robert Rossen, both were hauled before the House Un-American Activities Committee during the Hollywood witch-hunts. Both named lots of names. While those they named saw their careers crushed, Kazan and Rossen prospered. Would I have done it differently? I don't know. What little reason there is to remember this movie, however, is the great Arlen/Mercer song:
My mama done tol' me, when I was in knee-pants,
My mama done tol' me, "Son, a woman'll sweet talk
And give you the big eye, but when the sweet talkin's done,
A woman's a two-face, a worrisome thing who'll leave you to sing the blues in the night."
Now the rain's a-fallin', hear the train's a-callin, "Whooee!" (My mama done tol' me)
Hear that lonesome whistle blowin' 'cross the trestle, "Whooee!" (My mama done tol' me)
A-whooee-ah-whooee, ol' clickety-clack's a-echoin' back th' blues in the night.
The evenin' breeze'll start the trees to cryin' and the moon'll hide its light when you get the blues in the night.
Take my word, the mockingbird'll sing the saddest kind o' song, he knows things are wrong, and he's right.
From Natchez to Mobile, from Memphis to St. Joe, wherever the four winds blow.
I been in some big towns an' heard me some big talk, but there is one thing I know.
A woman's a two-face, a worrisome thing who'll leave you to sing the blues in the night.
My mama was right, there's blues in the night.
Anyone who doesn't believe this is true American poetry...well, you should also throw out the works of William Carlos Williams. For Mercer fans, you might be interested in the CD Evening With Johnny Mercer. Before an audience (which included Harold Arlen) he explains a bit about his writing, takes us through his career and breezes through a number of his songs. It was recorded in 1971, five years before he died. The drawback is that it runs less than an hour. For Mercer fans, it's essential. Mercer usually was his own best interpreter, but Bobby Troupe does a nice job with Bobby Troupe Sings Johnny Mercer. Troupe swings it and keeps it intimate. There's none of the over-orchestrating and lushness that some otherwise great singers brought to Mercer's songs. The CD is hard to find. Easier to locate is The Songs of Johnny Mercer sung by Susannah McCorkle, a fine, low-key stylist.
If I've given the impression you should forget this movie and instead spend more time listening to Johnny Mercer...you'd be right.
 Great old Movie August 25, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Another of Priscilla Lane's better movies. I loved her pre-botox lips.
She and Richard Whorf were the real stars of this movie.
A REAL TOUCH OF CLASS... I WAS BLUE WITH ENVY WHEN I FIRST READ ABOUT THIS MOVIE. August 20, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Blues in the night is a dynamic edge of the seat Thriller.
I bought it on the recommendations of previous reviewers and I was not dissappointed one bit.
Its in the film Noire catergory... a splendid well put together film that always has you wanting more, its cast of actors, where from the old school
who later in years became legendary leads in their business... but even in these earlier movies . they all had superb screen charisma.
The plot is very well scripted, and moves along at a great pace, ducking and diving and all the time giving its actors the chance to display there individual talents... Jack Carson for me is a superb favourite of mine, as too is Howard da Silva... who both went onto huge acclaim as time went by in the movie business.
Lloyd Nolan : he is terrific as always in any situation :he had a chequered career in Hollywood that span 50 years.. and the lead players Boy & Girl...Priscilla Lane very dishy, playing the romantic interest
of both her husband, and the main character player Richard Whorf the crazy mixed up musician were perfect casting.
Its a story thats got grit... intrigue... and romance... thats a sure fire recipe that would give a movie buff " The Blues in the Night "
They just cant make films of this calibre any more... which is a pity.
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