All in a Night's Work (1961)

All in a Night's Work (1961) (DVD) (*)

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Language Selections:
English ( Mono )
English ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Australia ( PAL/Region 2&4 )

Running Time:
93 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (2.35:1)

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1961 and produced in:
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Joseph Anthony

Written By:
Margit Veszi
Owen Elford

Actors:
Dean Martin ..... Tony Ryder
Shirley MacLaine ..... Katie Robbins
Cliff Robertson ..... Warren Kingsley, Jr.
Charles Ruggles ..... Dr. Warren Kingsley Sr.
Norma Crane ..... Marge Coombs
Jack Weston ..... Lasker
John Hudson ..... Harry Lane
Jerome Cowan ..... Sam Weaver
Gale Gordon ..... Oliver Dunning
Ralph Dumke ..... Baker
Mabel Albertson ..... Mrs. Kingsley Sr.
Rex Evans ..... Carter
Mary Treen ..... Miss Schuster
Roy Gordon ..... Albright
Ian Wolfe ..... O'Hara

Synopsis:

Colonel Ryder, the publisher of a magazine, dies while on vacation. Tony, his swinging nephew, inherits the magazine and takes over. Presently, the magazine is planning to expand and to do so they need some capital. Tony's trying to arrange a loan through his friend. He is then informed by the hotel detective of the hotel that his uncle died in, that on the night of his death, a woman, wearing only a towel, came out of his room, and ran away before the detective could catch up with her. They suspect that the Colonel was 'with' her on the night he died, cause he was smiling when he died. Tony and two of his uncle's confidants are worried that not only if the bank hears of this they will not get the loan but the magazine wholesome image could be tarnished. So they ask the detective to stay around so he could identify her. What they don't know is that the woman is Katie Robbins, one of the magazine's researchers and that she entered the room by 'accident'. When the detective identifies her and after having a few misconceived conversations with her, they suspect that she is trying to extort them, and she thinks that Tony's a nut.

Tony Ryder (Dean Martin) thinks that Katie Robbins (Shirley MacLaine) was the mistress of a recently deceased millionaire. On this fragile plot peg hangs the rest of All in a Night's Work. The millionaire died with a smile on his face, and Tony, who stands to inherit the dead man's publishing business, suspects that Katie, who has been left a fortune, administered the "favors" that pushed the old coot into the great beyond. Katie, wholly innocent, resents Tony's implications and gives him the brush-off. All turns out for the good when Tony realizes that he loves Katie for herself and not for her legacy. It took three writers (five, if you count the authors of the play upon which this film is based) to cook up the tickle-and-tease souffle that we've come to know as All in a Night's Work.

Farcical comedy centering on attractive working girl who is wrongly suspected of causing an elderly publishing tycoon's death.

This product was added to our catalog on Monday 30 October, 2023.