A Night to Remember (1942 film)
A Night to Remember is a mystery comedy film starring Loretta Young and Brian Aherne. It was directed by Richard Wallace, and is based on the novel The Frightened Stiff by Kelley Roos. A mystery writer and his wife try to solve a murder when a corpse appears in their Greenwich Village apartment.
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| Directed by | Richard Wallace |
| Produced by | Samuel Bischoff |
| Screenplay by | Richard Fluornoy Jack Henley |
| Based on | The Frightened Stiff 1942 novel by Kelley Roos |
| Starring | Loretta Young Brian Aherne |
| Music by | Werner R. Heymann |
| Cinematography | Joseph Walker |
| Edited by | Charles Nelson |
| Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
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Running time | 85-91 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Plot
Nancy (Loretta Young) and Jeff Troy (Brian Aherne) move into a somber-looking basement apartment building on 13 Gay Street, Greenwich Village, where the residents all act very strangely. Nancy recognizes one of the residents, Anne Carstairs (Jeff Donnell), who acts very oddly and not at all the way Nancy remembers her. While eating in a restaurant, Nancy overhears a man, later identified as Louis Kaufman, talking on the telephone telling someone to meet him in the basement apartment. Louis goes to the basement apartment and is later found dead in the backyard, after having been drowned in the apartment's bathtub.
Jeff recognizes the basement apartment as a former speakeasy and that the "monster" the housekeeper was afraid of is a turtle called "Old Hickory". Jeff and Nancy figure out that all the residents were being blackmailed by a man named Andrew Bruhl, who used to be a private investigator. Bruhl made all the blackmail victims live in one building to keep an eye on them.
Jeff and Nancy figure out that Bruhl killed Kaufman, and that Bruhl is someone who lives in the building. The suspects are Anne Carstairs (Jeff Donnell); her husband, Scott Carstairs (William Wright); Eddie Turner, the landlord; Polly Franklin (Lee Patrick), who works at the restaurant; Lingle (Richard Gaines), another resident; and the housekeeper, Mrs. Salter (Blanche Yurka).
Cast
- Loretta Young as Nancy Troy
- Brian Aherne as Jeff Troy
- Jeff Donnell as Anne Carstairs
- William Wright as Scott Carstairs
- Sidney Toler as Inspector Hankins
- Gale Sondergaard as Mrs. Devoe
- Donald MacBride as Bolling
- Lee Patrick as Polly Franklin
- Don Costello as Eddie Turner
- Blanche Yurka as Mrs. Salter
- Richard Gaines as Lingle
- James Burke as Pat Murphy