History Is Made At Night (1937)
Posted: May 31st, 2013, 8:11 pm
History Is made At Night (1937)
Irene—Jean Arthur
Paul-A Waiter—Charles Boyer
Cesare—A Chef—Leo Carillo
Bruce Vail—Irene`s insanely jealous husband.
Bruce believes that the faithful Irene has another man. She flees and divorces him. Bruce will not accept that he is being divorced and pursues her to Paris. She must not be compromised while awaiting her final decree, so Bruce arranges for the chauffeur to be caught with her.
Paul, in an adjoining unit hears the commotion, sees her being manhandled and comes to her rescue. Enter Bruce and a witness, Paul produces a gun, robs and kidnaps Irene. Paul returns her jewels, they go to a nightclub where they dance all night, and fall in love.
Irene goes home, having arranged to meet Paul at 5:00pm. The police are at her flat, where the butler has been bashed to death by Bruce. Now the police are looking for Paul, but if Irene sails with Bruce at 3:00pm he will arrange for Paul not to be charged.
She sails with Bruce. Paul is distraught and not knowing of the murder, sets off in pursuit. Eventually he finds her in New York and she tries to persuade him to flee with her to Tahiti, but an innocent man has been charged, so the couple set out for Paris on board Bruce`s new liner “Princess Irene”. Meantime the innocent man has been released, and, unknown to Paul, it has been established that he could not have committed the crime.
Bruce wants to set a new record for the Atlantic crossing and orders the Captain to go full steam ahead. The ship crashes into an iceberg and is sinking, but Irene does not want to live without Paul and refuses to get into the lifeboat.
Meanwhile Bruce hears of the tragedy, and that thousands of passengers will die. He writes a confession and tops himself.
The ship does not sink, the passengers will be saved, and Paul and Irene are in one another`s arms.
Irene—Jean Arthur
Paul-A Waiter—Charles Boyer
Cesare—A Chef—Leo Carillo
Bruce Vail—Irene`s insanely jealous husband.
Bruce believes that the faithful Irene has another man. She flees and divorces him. Bruce will not accept that he is being divorced and pursues her to Paris. She must not be compromised while awaiting her final decree, so Bruce arranges for the chauffeur to be caught with her.
Paul, in an adjoining unit hears the commotion, sees her being manhandled and comes to her rescue. Enter Bruce and a witness, Paul produces a gun, robs and kidnaps Irene. Paul returns her jewels, they go to a nightclub where they dance all night, and fall in love.
Irene goes home, having arranged to meet Paul at 5:00pm. The police are at her flat, where the butler has been bashed to death by Bruce. Now the police are looking for Paul, but if Irene sails with Bruce at 3:00pm he will arrange for Paul not to be charged.
She sails with Bruce. Paul is distraught and not knowing of the murder, sets off in pursuit. Eventually he finds her in New York and she tries to persuade him to flee with her to Tahiti, but an innocent man has been charged, so the couple set out for Paris on board Bruce`s new liner “Princess Irene”. Meantime the innocent man has been released, and, unknown to Paul, it has been established that he could not have committed the crime.
Bruce wants to set a new record for the Atlantic crossing and orders the Captain to go full steam ahead. The ship crashes into an iceberg and is sinking, but Irene does not want to live without Paul and refuses to get into the lifeboat.
Meanwhile Bruce hears of the tragedy, and that thousands of passengers will die. He writes a confession and tops himself.
The ship does not sink, the passengers will be saved, and Paul and Irene are in one another`s arms.