All Night Long
About All Night Long
Harry Hall (Harry Langdon) meets his old Marine sergeant, Gale Wyndham (Vernon Dent), and the meeting brings back their rivalry over Nanette Burgundy (Natalie Kingston), a girl from the time they were stationed in France. The short plays the old contest as a Sennett comedy of soldiers and sweethearts. Working titles included Over Here, Soldier Story, and War Is Swell.
Cast & crew
More about All Night Long
Harry Edwards directed. Arthur Ripley and Frank Capra wrote the story; Vernon Smith and Hal Conklin wrote the scenario. Pathé Exchange released it on 9 November 1924 as a two-reeler. It was Langdon's tenth film for Sennett.
Themes
Background
Released in November 1924, six years after the Armistice, as a comedy about a Marine rivalry remembered from France.
Making
Capra and Ripley, who later shaped Langdon's features, supplied the story while Langdon was still making two-reelers at Sennett's Glendale Boulevard lot.
Look
William Williams and Lee Davis photographed the two-reeler at the Sennett studio on Glendale Boulevard.
Music
Silent, with English intertitles.
Preservation
A print exists in the Raymond Rohauer collection (Cohen Media Group). The short is on the Internet Archive.
Notes
- It was previewed under the title War Is Swell.
- William Williams and Lee Davis photographed it. William Hornbeck edited, and John A. Waldron wrote the intertitles.
- F. Richard Jones supervised production. Ernie Crockett handled special photographic effects.
- Columbia remade it with Langdon in 1935 as The Leather Necker.
- A 35mm positive is in the Raymond Rohauer collection, held by Cohen Media Group.
Scenes
- Harry runs into Sergeant Gale Wyndham and the French-posting rivalry comes back with him.
Influenced
- The Leather Necker (1935)
Also available
- Internet Archive (silent-all-night-long)
