Blues in the Night

Blues in the Night

🎞️ Movie 88 min US
โ˜… 6.7 /10 1941

2 GRAND BANDS! JIMMY LUNCEFORD'S and WILL OSBORNE'S! MUSIC GALORE!

'Jigger' Lane forms a band that includes singer Ginger 'Character' Powell, wife of the trumpeter Leo Powelll, and Nickie Haroyen and Peppi. All of them dedicate themselves to work as a unit and to play 'blues' music. The dedication isn't paying off in money and, while riding the rails in a boxcar, they meet and befriend a gangster named Del Davis. He offers them a job at a New Jersey roadhouse, where Powell falls in love with Kay Grant, a former 'real-good friend' of Davis. But when Powell learns that 'Character' is about to have a baby, he returns to her. 'Jigger' tries to make Kay the band's singer and, when this fails, runs off with her. She leaves him with nothing to show for him except a nervous breakdown.Back at the roadhouse, after his recovery, Kay shows up, has a quarrel with Davis, shoots and kills him and plans to take back up with 'Jigger', who knows better but just can't help himself. While she is waiting in a car for him, along comes cripple Brad Ames, who she put in that condition, and he gets in and drives the car over a cliff, leaving no survivors in the two-passenger crash. The band is back together at the end, still using boxcars as their transportation, but happy playing the blues.

Cast

Priscilla Lane
Priscilla Lane
Character
Betty Field
Betty Field
Kay Grant
Richard Whorf
Richard Whorf
Jigger Pine
Lloyd Nolan
Lloyd Nolan
Del Davis
Jack Carson
Jack Carson
Leo Powell
Wallace Ford
Wallace Ford
Brad Ames
Elia Kazan
Elia Kazan
Nickie Haroyan
Peter Whitney
Peter Whitney
Pete Bossett
Billy Halop
Billy Halop
Peppi
Howard Da Silva
Howard Da Silva
Sam Paryas
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Heinz Roemheld
Composer
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Ernest Haller
Cinematographer

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