Night World (Blu-ray)
Taking a cue from Grand Hotel, this star-studded 1932 gem is set within the walls of a swanky nightclub owned by affable racketeer Happy MacDonald (Boris Karloff). In the course of a single evening, MacDonald is framed for murder by his faithless wife (Dorothy Revier) and a choreographer (George Raft); the philosophical doorman (Clarence Muse) fears for his beloved wife’s life; an alcoholic socialite (Lew Ayres), the son of an acquitted murderess (Hedda Hopper), finds love in the arms of a hard-boiled chorus girl (Mae Clarke); and a beat cop (Robert Emmett O’Connor) bursts in to foil a pair of trigger-happy mobsters. Throw in a full-blown musical number by Busby Berkeley—overhead camera angles and all—and you get a true treasure trove for pre-Code movie lovers!
- NEW Audio Commentary by Novelist and Critic Tim Lucas
- NEW Audio Commentary by Film Historian Jeremy Arnold
- Optional English Subtitles
- Hobart Henley - Director
- Lew Ayres - Actor
- Mae Clarke - Actor
- Boris Karloff - Actor
- Dorothy Revier - Actor
- Russell Hopton - Actor
- Arletta Duncan - Actor
- Bert Roach - Actor
- Dorothy Peterson - Actor
- Hedda Hopper - Actor
- Clarence Muse - Actor
- George Raft - Actor
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