Open All Night
About Open All Night
Thérèse Duverne is bored with her even-tempered husband Edmond. Their friend Isabelle tells him to go to the bicycle races and stay out all night, then takes Thérèse there and introduces the racer Petit Mathieu, who has just quarreled with his sweetheart Lea. He offers to run away with Thérèse if he wins the six-day race, while Lea spends the evening with Edmond. Thérèse decides she does not want a brute, Edmond shows some temper and wins her back, and Lea returns to Mathieu.
Cast & crew
More about Open All Night
Paul Bern directed Willis Goldbeck's adaptation of Paul Morand's 1922 story collection. Adolph Zukor and Jesse L. Lasky produced it for Famous Players-Lasky, Paramount released it on 13 October 1924, and Bert Glennon photographed the six reels (5,671 feet).
Themes
Look
Bert Glennon photographed the six-day bicycle race and the night Edmond spends away from home.
Preservation
Prints are at the Library of Congress, the UCLA Film and Television Archive, the George Eastman Museum, and the Cineteca del Friuli.
Notes
- Viola Dana plays Thérèse, Adolphe Menjou plays Edmond, Jetta Goudal plays Lea, Maurice Flynn plays Petit Mathieu, Gale Henry plays Isabelle, and Raymond Griffith plays Igor.
- Dana and Flynn married soon after the film.
- Isabelle's own project, once the couples are sorted, is getting her alcoholic sweetheart Igor into the movies.
- Bern, better known as a writer, later married Jean Harlow.
Scenes
- Isabelle sends Edmond to the races for the night and takes Thérèse to meet Petit Mathieu.
- Mathieu offers to run off with Thérèse after he wins.
- Thérèse rejects him, and Edmond wins her back.
Influenced by
- Paul Morand's 1922 story collection Open All Night
Also available
- Internet Archive (silent-open-all-night)