Blues in the Night
by Anatole Litvak
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Actor: Betty Field, Jack Carson, Lloyd Nolan, Priscilla Lane, Richard WhorfDirector: Anatole Litvak
Brand: Warner Brothers
Writer: Elia Kazan
Cinematographer: Ernest Haller
Editor: Owen Marks
Producer: Hal B. Wallis
Producer: Henry Blanke
Writer: Edwin Gilbert
Writer: Robert Rossen
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Black & White, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 88 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-07-22
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Warner Home Video
Movie Reviews of Blues in the Night
Movie Review: Could have been a lot better
Summary: 2 Stars
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.
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