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A Night to Remember

1942 · 88 min

A breezy, creaky whodunit that trades real scares for chuckles, with a gloomy basement flat and oddball neighbours keeping things light and playful.

Directed by
Richard Wallace
Genres
Comedy, Mystery
Tagline
Startling in Mystery and Laughs!
Overview
A woman rents a gloomy basement apartment in Greenwich Village thinking it will provide the perfect atmosphere for her mystery writer husband to create his next book. They soon find themselves in the middle of a real-life mystery when a corpse turns up in their apartment.

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Directed by
Richard Wallace
Genres
Comedy, Mystery
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Tone
  • lightstrength 2 of 3
  • whimsicalstrength 2 of 3
  • satiricalstrength 2 of 3
  • eeriestrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
easy-watch, 2 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • mystery
  • deception
  • crime
  • love
  • isolation
Places
  • big city
  • home
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
None
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language none
  • Violence mild
  • Sex none
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Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action3
Horror3
Humour6
Realism6
Romance4
Tension5
Darkness4
Complexity5
Emotional weight3

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Genres
comedy, mystery
Directed by
Richard Wallace
Written by
Jack Henley, Richard Flournoy
Starring
Loretta Young, Brian Aherne, Jeff Donnell, William Wright, Sidney Toler, Gale Sondergaard, Donald MacBride, Lee Patrick
Cinematography
Joseph Walker
Runtime
88 min
Country
United States of America
Languages
English

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