All Through the Night

Plot synopsis:
Alfred "Gloves" Donahue (Humphrey Bogart), a big-shot Broadway gambler, is alerted by his mother, 'Ma' Donahue (Jane Darwell), that her neighbor, Mr. Miller (Ludwig Stossel), a baker who makes Gloves' favorite cheesecake, is missing. Upon searching the bakery, Gloves finds Miller's dead body. A young singer, Leda Hamilton (Kaaren Verne), quickly leaves the shop upon hearing about Miller's demise. Mrs. Donahue believes that the girl knows something and tracks her down to a night club, where she creates a racket by "crabbing" about Miller's death. Co-partner of the Duchess Club, Marty Callahan (Barton MacLane), calls Gloves, insisting that he come down and take care of the situation. While at the club, Gloves has a drink with Leda that is interrupted by her piano player, Pepi (Peter Lorre), who takes her away to a back room, where he shoots Marty's partner, Joe Denning (Edward Brophy). Lena and Pepi then disappear in a taxi as Gloves stumbles upon Joe. Before dying, Joe raises up five fingers to indicate who took Leda. Gloves quickly leaves to search for Leda, inadvertently leaving one of his gloves at the murder scene.
While being suspected of Joe's murder by Marty and the police, Gloves traces the taxi to an antique/auction house, named I.J. Madison, Inc. Importers and Exporters, operated by Hall Ebbing (Conrad Veidt) and his assistant, Madame (Judith Anderson). While posing as a bidder in the successful acquisition of a desk, Gloves is recognized by Pepi. He subsequently gets knocked-out by Leda, tied up, and left in a storage room with one of his boys, Sunshine (William Demarest), who was earlier captured. Later, Leta visits them, enabling them to break free from their ropes before they are packed up in crates and shipped out. Before escaping, Gloves and Sunshine walk into a room with maps, charts, a short-wave radio, and a portrait of Adolf Hitler, now knowing that their captors are "fivers" or Nazi fifth columnists, which is what Joe was indicating before he died. Gloves finds a notebook and reads Miller's name in it as well as that of "Leda Hamilton", her Jewish name "Uda Hammel", and the death of her father "Ludwig Hammel" at the Dachau concentration camp.
With Leda in tow, they escape the building by climbing down from a balcony. They are chased by Ebbing and his cronies into Central Park. It is here that Leda explains that she is working with Ebbing only to save her father's life at Dachau. While Gloves fights with a Nazi, Leda reads the torn-out page that states her father is already dead. Gloves and Leda go to the police, who search the antique house but find it empty. Disbelieving Glove's story, they attempt to arrest him, but he escapes by diving into the East River. He arrives at his lawyer's (Wallace Ford) apartment, only to have Marty and his mob break in, eager to avenge Joe's murder. After Gloves convinces them of his innocence, the two gangs join forces against the Nazi spies.
Gloves, Sunshine, and Barney (Frank McHugh) go to the police station where Leda is being held. Ebbing, however, has bailed her out, and they arrive as she is being forced into a car. They chase the car to a shop named Madison Novelty Co., where an underground Nazi meeting is being held. Gloves and Sunshine pose as Nazi cronies to get into the meeting, which eventually gets broken up by the combined gangs. Ebbing escapes, shooting Pepi to death, as he refused to take part in a two-man suicide mission. Ebbing intends to proceed on the plan to blow up a battleship in New York harbor. Gloves follows him to the docks, where Ebbing surprises him and forces him into a motorboat containing high explosives. At gunpoint, Ebbing forces Gloves to steer the boat in the direction of the battleship. Gloves suddenly veers the boat off its course, and he jumps into the water, while the boat with Ebbing on board crashes into a barge and explodes.
Back at the police station, Gloves and Leda find out that all charges have been dropped against them and that the mayor is going to honor him at city hall. Ma Donahue enters complaining that the milkman has disappeared, and she is afraid something has happened to him. Gloves asks: "What makes you think that?" Ma states, "Well, son, I've got a feeling", as the movie ends.

Tags: murder

Review:
Humphrey Bogart and a cast of comedians and character actors make it "All Through the Night," a spy story set in New York City.
As propaganda, it goes down easily with a terrific cast and some hilarious moments, particularly when Bogart and Demarest attend a secret meeting posing as Nazis.The plot, of course, is preposterous, and the notes that Bogart finds in Veidt's desk are, for some reason, written in English instead of German, but none of that takes away from the enjoyment of the movie.The performances are all excellent, but Bogart is a wonder.
Ma Donahue comes to ask her son's assistance in trying to solve the murder of her baker neighbor, and the fun and games begin in full force.There are a lot of good moments in the film, but it is dominated by Humphrey Bogart who runs away with the picture.
His crew is also a great asset to the film, Frank McHugh, a fantastic actor, no matter in what picture is excellent, as well as William Demarest, one of the best character actors in the movies of that era.
The chase for the killer(s) is on...You cannot watch this movie without smiling at the antics of Frank McHugh, the character actor who endeared himself to many during the 30s and 40s.Conrad Veidt is phenomenally evil as the Nazi spy and it's important to remember this man actually fled from Germany to reside in England and America, giving all of his monies and salaries to the British Government to fight the Nazi menace.
A search for the murderer of their friendly neighborhood German baker and a nightclub bouncer leads New York City "sports promoter" (read: bookie) Gloves Donahue (Humphrey Bogart in one of his most entertaining roles) and his sidekicks Sunshine (William Demarest) and Barney (Frank McHugh, or as we affectionately call him, "Annabelle's Husband," in honor of the film's running gag about his character's newlywed status) to a nest of Fifth Columnists with sabotage on their minds, right in the middle of Manhattan!
The high concept of this fast, funny, suspenseful Warners adventure is basically "Damon Runyon Meets The Nazis." I especially got a kick out of the breezy, sometimes punny dialogue (like "We'll get them by the seat of their Panzers" and "Hey, there's more here than meets the FBI!") and its delightful euphemisms for Bogie's line of work, such as "man about town and well-known figure in the sporting world." (My late dad was a bookie, so I should know!
;-) Bogart, Demarest, McHugh, and charming leading lady Kaaren Verne are joined by smooth villains Conrad Veidt, Peter Lorre, and Judith Anderson, and on the good guys' team, Jane Darwell (as Bogie's mom!), Edward Brophy, Barton MacLane, and even a young Phil Silvers and Jackie (C.) Gleason!
One day, Jack Warner wandered into his studio commissary, noticed all these contract players sitting around drinking coffee and screamed, 'Get 'em all into a movie...NOW!' I submit: Jackie Gleason William Demarest Frank McHugh Wally Ford Peter Lorre Conrad Viedt Judith Anderson James Burke Not enough?
Lorre and Veidt and Dame Judith Anderson are wonderfully villainous, and a couple of future superstars -- Phil Silvers and Jackie Gleason -- make their debuts as members of Bogart's gang.
Kaaren Verne is the heroine who the Nazis are using to entice Bogey, she's working for them because she believes this will save her father still in the fatherland.Bogey has such people working for him as William Demarest, Frank McHugh, Wallace Ford, Jackie Gleason and Phil Silvers.
Minor Gem. A neat little comic thriller out of Warner Brothers with Bogart as Gloves Donahue and a great supporting cast filled with names that run on and on.
You might have seen it in Sam Taylor's screenplay for "North by Northwest.") Great snappy lines -- Bogart to a girl singer: "Sister, I like da way you sling dem obligattos around."  While digging around for evidence with his friend Sunshine, "Da police are frequently skeptical."  Not as tightly wound as the best comic thrillers, including "North by Northwest" and "The Thirty-Nine Steps," but well worth wasting time on..
All Through the Night is the closest thing to a Hitchcock movie starring Humphrey Bogart in which an ordinary man gets caught up in espionage and becomes a fugitive for a crime he didn't commit with moments in the film such as the auction scene or Bogart deliberately getting arrested by police directly reminded me of North by Northwest; likewise the movie even stars Judith Anderson in the Mrs. Danvers hairstyle from Rebecca while Bogart's exploits against the movie's Nazi villains gives an urban Indiana Jones edge to the film.
All Through the Night features a large selection of character actors at some of their best work and even features a young Jackie Gleason in one of his earliest film roles; what more secrets does this movie hold?
had already long established themselves as an anti-Nazi studio.By the time I watched All Through the Night I had already seen all of Bogart's major movies and figured I was largely finished exploring the actor's filmography, thus it came as such a delight discovering this obscure gem which satisfied me more than many of his more famous movies.
The story is so blah that after an hour, it's tough to stay focused.It's incredible to make those statements when you consider the cast includes Humphrey Bogart, Conrad Veidt, Peter Lorre, Jane Darwell, Frank McHugh, Jackie Gleason, Judith Anderson, Phil Silvers and William Demarest.The film isn't all that bad, but if you have a collection of films that is of any size, as I do, this wasn't good enough to be a "keeper.".
Comedy bits filter the fisticuffs.Star studded cast helping Bogart includes: Peter Lorre, William Demarest, Jane Darwell, Jackie Gleason, Phil Silvers, Wallace Ford and Judith Anderson.
It's nothing like the great Bogarts, but it really doesn't pretend to be.Bogart plays a New York gambler ("Gloves" Donahue) who has an organization filled with good-natured roughnecks that include the likes of Frank McHugh, William Demarest, Jackie Gleason, and Phil Silvers.
They stumble across an organization of Nazi saboteurs led by a trio of delightful villains played by Conrad Veidt, Peter Lorre, and Judith Anderson.The resulting plot developments are wildly implausible, and the dialogue sometimes silly, but it is all good fun as long as you weren't expecting "Casablanca" or "Key Largo".
It's no longer as impressive as it was upon its release nearly 70 years ago, but ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT holds up fairly well as a curious blend of mystery, action, comedy and flag-waving.Humphrey Bogart leads a rag-tag bunch of Manhattan gamblers who take on as their patriotic duty a battle against Nazis who hope to paint the city red with their despicable brand of hate.
Though it boasts an impressive cast (Bogey, Peter Lorre and Conrad Veidt are at the top of their game), lively dialog and good action sequences, the film suffers from some faults.
Jackie Gleason, William Demarest, Peter Lorre, Conrad Veidt, Phil Silvers in one movie???The story is a great roller coaster ride.
Not only is it a great Fifth Column support the war effort movie, but it is funny, endearing and incredibly well acted.I'm not sure how someone could say Bogart wasn't good at comedy!
Hot on the trail, Bogart meets duplicitous songstress Kaaren Verne (as Leda Hamilton), who leads him to a New York City gang of Nazi sympathizers."All Through the Night" begins as a broad, Damon Runyon-stylized comedy.
The incongruence is amazing, the cast unique.***** All Through the Night (12/2/41) Vincent Sherman ~ Humphrey Bogart, Kaaren Verne, William Demarest, Peter Lorre.
Though made prior to "Casablanca" (1942), this film features Humphrey Bogart, Conrad Veidt and Peter Lorre, who would all have major roles in that film.Humphrey Bogart leads the cast with an excellent performance as Alfred "Gloves" Donahue, indifferent to World War II until drawn into a world of subterfuge.
If you can overlook the silly plot for the sake of enjoying a cast that includes Bogart, Peter Lorre, Conrad Veidt and Judith Anderson--and don't expect too much--you might enjoy some of the shenanigans going on here as gambler Bogart and his cronies try to tear the lid off a Nazi spy ring.
Some of the dialogue is amusing and on target, but too much of the humor is on the level of a Bowery Boys movie as are the shootouts with Nazis and gangsters in assorted New York settings that look like leftover sets from old Warner films.
...when you're cheering the Nazis, but any person with discernment will feel more warmly towards Judith Anderson, Conrad Veidt and their sweet little pet dachshund working for the Axis than Humphrey Bogart and his bumbling group of wisecracking slimeballs, supposedly representing the American way of life.
what we have here is a real funny look at a Nazi Invasion into the murky Depths of New York and Bogart aptly named 'Gloves' Donahue' stumbles upon this and along with the fabulous Frank McHugh have a laugh a minute during their pursuance trying to out them and convince the Police that there is an Invasion.
We also have that great actor Peter Lorre who at one point in the film is referred to by Bogart as 'Weasel' and some memorable scenes bring us other stars from the past like Phil Silvers who has an hilarious role during a mass punch up.
You cannot watch this movie without Laughing at the funny scenes played out by Frank McHugh, the character actor who i feel is so so underrated in the film world.
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!!
Plus, for fans like me who love familiar movie extras, this one is jam-packed--with Frank McHugh, William Demarest and a very young Jackie Gleason (among others) as well as Conrad Veidt and Peter Lorre as the "baddies"..
All through the Night, one of Humphrey Bogart's lesser-known films, is an often-funny, tightly written spy caper wherein our antihero, playing "promoter" Gloves Donahue, finds himself in the middle of a nest of Nazis trying to sabotage a battleship in New York City.It seems that local baker Joe has been murdered by persons unknown.
Despite Gloves efforts to alert the police to what's going on he in fact becomes their #1 suspect, in Pepi planting one of Gloves' gloves at the murder scene, in Mr. Miller's murder!As things turn out it's nightclub singer Leda Hamilton, Kaaren Verne, who also works for the Nazi spy and sabotage ring who helps Gloves out in that she finds out that her German born father who was being head hostage by the Nazis in Germany's notorious Dachau concentration camp was murdered by them.
Very glad Turner Classic Movies are bringing these old classics out of the mothballs.While it will probably not be remade due to the period references (although it could theoretically be done replacing Al-Quaeda for the Nazi references) it should be considered a classic.Besides the great combination of comedy with action, it is great to see some favorite character actors (including Uncle Charley from "My Three Sons" and the General from "I Dream of Jeannie") along with younger versions of favorites including the creepy Peter Lorre, a comically toupeed Phil Silvers, and a slightly rotund Jackie Gleason.Central to this story is our hero, Bogie.
Very funny spoof of detective/spy movies starring the king of them all -- Humphrey Bogart -- as a small-time gambler/racketeer who gets involved with a lovely lady and the nazi agents (including the always excellent Veidt) she's caught up with.
The fight sequence at the end also is reminiscent of similar scenes in those films but on a smaller scale.The inner plot about the German spy ring operating in New York would have made a better picture if they had eliminated the so-called "Bogary Boys" comedy sequences.At this stage of his career, Bogey was not very believable trying to be Leo Gorcey, especially after "High Sierra" and "The Maltese Falcon".
Silly Fun. All Through the Night (1941) ** 1/2 (out of 4) Bizarre, silly and over the top picture from Warner has a racketeer (Humphrey Bogart) getting mixed up with a strange woman (Kaaren Verne) who just happens to be involved with a group of Nazis (Conrad Veidt, Peter Lorre).
It is no different in ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT, which can proudly boast of names such as: Conrad Veidt, Peter Lorre, Ed Brophy, Kaaren Verne, Jane Darwell, Frank Sully, William Demarest, Judith Anderson, Wallace Ford, Barton MacLane and Frank McHugh.
The funnest part is spotting all of the well-known faces like that of Bogie, Peter Lorre, Frank MacHugh, Phil Silvers, Jackie Gleason and the ever cranky William Demarest.This was a typical Hollywood propaganda movie of the time that stirred up patriotic feelings towards the Nazi.
After the attacks on September 11, 2001, films like "All Through the Night" seem much closer to reality, especially this one with its New York City setting.Gloves Donahue (Humphrey Bogart) is about as interested in World War II as Scarlett O'Hara was in the civil war.
Bogart was in good form as a racketeer, who comes up against Nazi spies, headed by Conrad Veidt, Peter Lorre, and Judith Anderson, and prefers patriotism to the profits of crime Several things seriously frightened the film's success It was released very shortly after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, a bad time for portraying a quasi-realistic spy tale in a laughable manner The film also suffered from an overt case of "cuteness" in its dialog, with such lines as ' Say, there's more here than meets the FBI.,' being uttered all too frequently by Bogart and his comic retinue which included Frank McHugh, William Demarest, Jackie Gleason, and Phil Silvers Another weak point in the film was completely unbelievable "cliffhanger" ending which found Veidt driving a speedboat loaded with explosives toward a battleship In spite of these minor irritants, the film did give Bogart a chance to do some very creditable comedy work and on the whole it still entertains.
With it's combination of various genres (Runyonese gangsters,comedy,spy drama,mystery,thriller,Nazi villains,wartime propaganda),ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT could've been an unwieldy and confusing melange of styles;that it is not is a tribute to it's behind the scenes crew (splendidly led by Vincent Sherman) and wonderful cast,with arguably Hollywood's most imperishable star,Humphrey Bogart,at it's epicentre.Genial gangster Gloves Donahue (Bogart) probes into the killing of a friend, Miller (Ludwig Stossel),a baker whose cheesecake Gloves has been eating for years.His investigations lead him onto a nightclub singer (Kaaren Verne) who reveals that like Miller she's under the whim of an organisation of Nazi fifth columnists,led by the urbane but sinister Ebbing (Conrad Veidt).Gloves himself is under suspicion of murder,and exposing the Nazis involved intent on sabotage is the only way to prove his innocence.ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT is a scandalously underrated effort in the Humphrey Bogart catalogue.Perhaps the fact that the story involved is played for laughs rather than grim drama has led critics in the past to feel the tone was overly facetious and jokey,lacking the greater sophistication of the immortal CASABLANCA for example.It is very true on the last point,but overall as a piece of all-round entertainment,this film is very hard to beat.This is a quintessential Hollywood studio product of the early 1940's;Warner Bros'studio back-lots glistening with rain,fog and atmosphere,dark corners,warehouses,swanky nightclubs and docklands,breathlessly unpretentious direction by Vincent Sherman,a witty,exciting,fast-moving script that covers up the implausibilities of the plot,and a quite extraordinary cast of outstanding character actors,such as William Demarest,Peter Lorre,Judith Anderson,Edward Brophy,Barton MacLane,Jane Darwell,Phil Silvers,Jackie Gleason,James Burke and Wallace Ford.The very appealing ingredients above combined make this an irresistibly entertaining brew.There are several minor flaws;Frank McHugh is a little over-strident as a newly-attached bridegroom;Sam MacDaniel's brief role shows that Hollywood still had a long way to go before conquering it's crude Negro stereotyping,and Kaaren Verne is rather colourless and ineffectual as the main female lead.Bogart himself was not always completely assured when just playing straight comedy,yet he still handles it with his usual style and charisma,and works very well in tandem with the ever reliable Demarest and others with the Runyonese-style dialogue and situations.Bogie remember was still in the very early stages of his new-found stardom after years playing a variety of unpleasant hoodlums and gangsters,and he would reunite with Veidt and Lorre soon afterwards in perhaps the most beloved Hollywood production of them all,CASABLANCA.There is a rousing,exciting finale when various friends and cronies of Bogart battle it out with the Nazi villains in their secret headquarters,though this is slightly off-put by a dockland-based sequence involving Bogart and Veidt which goes somewhat over the top and is afflicted by unconvincing model work.Nevertheless,ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT is a hugely enjoyable and entertaining example of wartime Hollywood,when talent,professionalism and actors could paper over the cracks of a story which was often dubious and lacking in credibility.What a shame there are very few indeed in this day and age who can come nowhere near such admirable qualities.RATING:8 out of 10..
It features Humphrey Bogart, Conrad Veidt and Peter Lorre in a war time propaganda film that wasn't called "Casablanca", and goes on to defeat the Germans on home soil.
Imagine his unhappiness when his favorite baker is found murdered - and the cops wonder if he's involved.Bogart and his gang (including right hand man William Demerest, but also the new faces of Phil Silvers and Jackie Gleason are among them) begin to investigate.
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.