All Through the Night
When "Gloves" Donahue (Humphrey Bogart) shows the desk clerk the newspaper with his mug on it, it's actually a picture of him as Roy Earle from High Sierra (1940).,Near the ending, after the fight at the fifth column meeting in the toy store basement, Ebbing (Conrad Veidt) escapes and intends to blow up the American battleship. He orders Pepe (Peter Lorre) to help. Pepe refuses and is shot. He tumbles down the stairs dead. Moments later Gloves (Humphrey Bogart) runs up the stairs, but Pepe is nowhere to be seen.,Sunshine: [Sneaking through villains' hideout] Hmm. What kind of radio is that?
Alfred "Gloves" Donahue: That's a short wave outfit.
Sunshine: What goes on here?
Alfred "Gloves" Donahue: I don't know. I don't get it. Hold on.
[Moves cigarette lighter, revealing portrait of Adolf Hitler on wall]
Alfred "Gloves" Donahue: Aha!,Edited into Tales from the Crypt: You, Murderer (1995),All Through the Night
(1941)
Music by Arthur Schwartz
Lyrics by Johnny Mercer
Sung by Kaaren Verne at the Duchess Club,A neat little comic thriller out of Warner Brothers with Bogart as Gloves Donahue and a great supporting cast filled with names that run on and on. Two particular scenes stand out. Bogart, a lowbrow New Yorker, finds himself stuck at a fancy auction and in an attempt to get backstage begins making outrageous bids -- a woman bids two thousand and Bogart tops her with, "I'll see da lady and raise her five." He gets backstage but is conked unconscious. Recovering, he finds the warehouse filled with incriminating Nazi junk. He spills all this to the dubious police. "I can't grasp it," says the Lieutenant, "maybe I'm not big enough mentally." But finally the cops agree to investigate the warehouse, only for Bogart to discover that everything has been rearranged or removed in such a way as to make his tale sound like a fantasy. (Does any of this sound familiar? You might have seen it in Sam Taylor's screenplay for "North by Northwest.") Great snappy lines -- Bogart to a girl singer: "Sister, I like da way you sling dem obligattos around." While digging around for evidence with his friend Sunshine, "Da police are frequently skeptical." Not as tightly wound as the best comic thrillers, including "North by Northwest" and "The Thirty-Nine Steps," but well worth wasting time on.,