New York Nights
(1929)
81 mins | Melodrama | 28 December 1929
Director:
Lewis MilestoneCinematographer:
Ray JuneEditor:
Hal C. KernProduction Company:
Art Cinema Corp.Although contemporary reports give 81 minutes as the running time for the film, the reported 7,447 foot length times out to just shy of 83 minutes. New York Nights was reissued by Art Cinema Associates in 1937 with a running time of 63 minutes. ...
Although contemporary reports give 81 minutes as the running time for the film, the reported 7,447 foot length times out to just shy of 83 minutes. New York Nights was reissued by Art Cinema Associates in 1937 with a running time of 63 minutes.
Chorus girl Jill Deverne supports her song-writer husband, Fred, who has a strong bent for alcohol. When he finishes a new song, she consents to show it to racketeer Joe Prividi, the producer of her musical show, but Fred objects to favors from him; nevertheless Prividi, who covets Jill, agrees to use the song. Fred and his partner, Johnny Dolan, arrive drunk at a nightclub appointment; and in a raid, the police discover Fred with Ruthie, a chorus girl. Disgusted and angered by Fred's behavior, Jill becomes Prividi's girl. Later, at a private party, Prividi shoots a drunken gambler who tries to force himself on her; and when she goes to him at the jail, Jill finds Fred down and out and plans for a new future. Prividi hires gunmen to shoot Fred upon his release, but Prividi is taken prisoner aboard a train, and Jill and Fred begin life ...
Chorus girl Jill Deverne supports her song-writer husband, Fred, who has a strong bent for alcohol. When he finishes a new song, she consents to show it to racketeer Joe Prividi, the producer of her musical show, but Fred objects to favors from him; nevertheless Prividi, who covets Jill, agrees to use the song. Fred and his partner, Johnny Dolan, arrive drunk at a nightclub appointment; and in a raid, the police discover Fred with Ruthie, a chorus girl. Disgusted and angered by Fred's behavior, Jill becomes Prividi's girl. Later, at a private party, Prividi shoots a drunken gambler who tries to force himself on her; and when she goes to him at the jail, Jill finds Fred down and out and plans for a new future. Prividi hires gunmen to shoot Fred upon his release, but Prividi is taken prisoner aboard a train, and Jill and Fred begin life anew.
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