| History is Made at Night |
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| Directed by |
Frank Borzage |
| Produced by |
Walter Wanger |
| Written by |
C. Graham Baker |
| Starring |
Charles Boyer
Jean Arthur |
| Music by |
Alfred Newman |
| Cinematography |
David Abel
Gregg Toland |
| Editing by |
Margaret Clancey |
| Distributed by |
United Artists |
| Release date(s) |
March 5, 1937 |
| Running time |
95 min |
| Country |
 United States |
| Language |
English |
History Is Made at Night is a 1937 romantic drama with elements of comedy and spectacle.
It deals with a love triangle among a possessive shipping magnate, his beautiful wife, and a French headwaiter, with a spectacular ocean liner as a backdrop.
Colin Clive plays the insanely jealous and homicidal husband, Bruce Vail. Jean Arthur is his wife, Irene, and Charles Boyer is Paul, the headwaiter with whom she falls in love.
The film was produced by Walter Wanger and directed by Frank Borzage. Leo Carillo portrays Paul's best friend, Cesare. The film has an amazing Titanic-like climax, when the ocean liner "SS Princess Irene" (named after Jean Arthur's character) strikes an iceberg on its maiden voyage.
Plot
Irene has decided to dissolve her marriage to her husband, the rich ship owner Bruce Vail. To prevent it from engage a divorce procedure, Vail gives the order to his driver Michael to introduce itself in the room of hotel of his woman to Paris, so that himself and a private detective the surprises in a position compromising. But when Bruce and the detective burst in the room, they are threatened by an unknown one that takes Irene in hostage while taking its jewels.
Indeed, the intruder, Paul Dumond, did not play the thieves that to save the young woman, for it had surprised his conversation with Michael before the entry of the husband. It returns him its jewels and the guest to dine to the "Blue Castle", then goes home it to the small morning. But Irene surprised it to discover the police at her place, for Michael is dead. By blackmail, she is constrained to follow his husband to New York. In reality master of hotel to the "blue Castle", Paul learns by the newspaper the departure of Irene. Accompanied boss cook Cesare, it embarks himself to his turn for the United States.
To Manhattan, Paul opens a French restaurant, the "Victor's", to rediscover the one that it likes: a day or the other, she will come. The encounter takes place at last but Paul learns that a man was stopped to Paris for the murder of Michael. Decided to prevent a judicial error, it embarks himself, accompanied Irene, on the "Princess Irene" that belongs to Vail.
In the middle of the crossing, because of the instructions of the ship owner that demanded to beat a speed record, the boat bumps an iceberg. Learning the catastrophe, Vail commits suicide while leaving a confession where it declares having killed Michael. Remained on the wreck, Paul and Irene will be saved by a passage vessel.
External links
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The films of Frank Borzage |
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The Pride and the Man • Dollars of Dross • Land o' Lizards • Immediate Lee • Flying Colors • Until They Get Me • The Gun Woman • The Curse of Iku • The Shoes That Danced • Innocent's Progress • Society for Sale • An Honest Man • Who Is to Blame? • The Ghost Flower • The Atom • Toton the Apache • Whom the Gods Would Destroy • Prudence on Broadway
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| 1920s |
Humoresque • The Duke of Chimney Butte • Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford • Back Pay • Billy Jim • The Good Provider • The Valley of Silent Men • The Pride of Palomar • The Nth Commandment • Children of the Dust • The Age of Desire • Secrets • The Lady • Daddy's Gone A-Hunting • The Circle • Lazybones • Wages for Wives • The First Year • The Dixie Merchant • Early to Wed • Marriage License? • Seventh Heaven • Street Angel • Lucky Star • They Had to See Paris • The River
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