| One New York Night | |
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| Directed by | Jack Conway |
| Screenplay by | Frank Davis |
| Based on | Order, Please 1934 play by Edward Childs Carpenter Sorry You've Been Troubled 1929 play byWalter Hackett |
| Produced by | Bernard H. Hyman |
| Starring | Franchot Tone Una Merkel Conrad Nagel Harvey Stephens Steffi Duna Charles Starrett |
| Cinematography | Oliver T. Marsh |
| Edited by | Tom Held |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | Loew's Inc. |
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Running time | 71 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
One New York Night (also released asThe Trunk Mystery) is a 1935 Americancomedy film directed byJack Conway and written by Frank Davis. The film starsFranchot Tone,Una Merkel,Conrad Nagel,Harvey Stephens,Steffi Duna andCharles Starrett. The film was released on March 3, 1935, byMetro-Goldwyn-Mayer.[1][2] It was based on theWest End playSorry You've Been Troubled byWalter Hackett, which had previously been made into the 1932 British filmLife Goes On.
Foxhall Ridgeway, a cattle rancher from Wyoming, checks into a New York City hotel, determined to find a wife. Instead he finds a dead body in the room next to his. Meanwhile Countess Broussiloff has asked her friend Phoebe, a switchboard operator at the hotel, to find her bracelet. She lost it in the dead man's room. Foxhall tries to get the hotel manager to call the police, only the body has disappeared. So has the bracelet. Foxhall and Phoebe team up to find the bracelet for the Countess.
Writing forThe Spectator,Graham Greene praised the film as "a comedy of astonishing intelligence and finish". Greene emphasized the "witty dialogue, [and] the quick intelligent acting" of Tone and Merkel, commenting that the film felt "[bathed] in an atmosphere fantastic, daring and pleasantly heartless".[3]
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