Night in New Orleans

1942
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1h 15m

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Albert Dekker, Preston Foster, and Patricia Morison in Night in New Orleans (1942)

Police Lieutenant Steve Abbott is engrossed in a baffling murder case. As Steve pieces the clues together, he comes to the sobering conclusion that his own wife Ethel might be intimately inv... Read allPolice Lieutenant Steve Abbott is engrossed in a baffling murder case. As Steve pieces the clues together, he comes to the sobering conclusion that his own wife Ethel might be intimately involved in the murder. It even gets worse: soon Steve himself is accused of the crime.Police Lieutenant Steve Abbott is engrossed in a baffling murder case. As Steve pieces the clues together, he comes to the sobering conclusion that his own wife Ethel might be intimately involved in the murder. It even gets worse: soon Steve himself is accused of the crime.

Director
- William Clemens
Writers
- James R. Langham
- Jonathan Latimer
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5.9/10

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Director
- William Clemens
Writers
- James R. Langham
- Jonathan Latimer
Stars

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One of over 700 Paramount Productions, filmed between 1929 and 1949, which were sold to MCA/Universal in 1958 for television distribution, and have been owned and controlled by Universal ever since. Its earliest documented telecasts took place in Seattle Wednesday 31 December 1958 on KIRO (Channel 7) and in Omaha 8 January 1959 on KETV (Channel 7); in Chicago it was first aired 7 May 1959 on WBBM (Channel 2), in Asheville 10 June 1959 on WLOS (Channel 13), in Denver 15 August 1959 on KBTV (Channel 9), in Milwaukee 7 September 1959 on WITI (Channel 6), in Detroit 8 December 1959 on WJBK (Channel 2), in San Francisco 22 December 1959 on KPIX (Channel 5), and in Toledo 2 February 1960 on WTOL (Channel 11).

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Music by Hoagy Carmichael
Lyrics by Frank Loesser

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6/10

Engaging Mystery-Comedy

Preston Foster is in competition with Albert Dekker for the new captaincy that's just opened up.... and the police commissioner's job is also up for grabs. So when a man that Foster is investigating turns up dead and the evidence indicates that Foster might have a hand in it, he has to keep arguing his way out of having Dekker arrest him with the help of his loving but silly wife, Patricia Morrison, and faithful manservant Dooley Wilson.

It's a bright little mystery comedy, with easy play between Foster and Miss Morrison; although it might seem that New Orleans has little to do with the movie, it is set just before the Mardis Gras, and it actually has some relevance. I figured the wrongplayer for the murderer until he was eliminated, so it turned out to be a fairly good time. With Charles Butterworth, Paul Hurst, Cecil Kellaway, and Yola D'Avril.