Another fun mae west on the essential collection from Universal. Early-ish role for both raft and cummings. The awesome alison skipworth had done a couple silent thangs already. The other gangs in town want to buy joe's casino on the cheap. Joe was willing to sell, but not for that low price. It looks like a battle of the mobs is coming down the pike. Co-stars wynne gibson, roscoe karns. Funny scene when mabel and maude (skipworth and west) slowly get drunk together and strike up a grand friendship. We know its a gangster film, because raft says "see" at the end of every sentence. It's good! Probably would have been another boring speakeasy film, but west and skipworth really zing it up! Can't go wrong with a mae west adventure. She does have swagger. Directed by archie mayo. Louis bromfield wrote the original story, but mankiewicz and west spiffed it up. Kind of funny... the original story was titled "single night", but hollywood called it "night after night"... the irony.
Review of Night After Night
