Out All Night (1927 film)

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Out All Night
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Directed by William A. Seiter
Written byCharles Diltz (adaptation)
Marcel Perez (adaptation)
Tom Reed (titles)
Harvey F. Thew
Story by Gladys Lehman
Starring Reginald Denny
Marian Nixon
Wheeler Oakman
Cinematography Arthur L. Todd
Production
company
Distributed byUniversal Pictures
Release date
  • 4 September 1927 (1927-09-04)
Running time
60 minutes
CountryUnited States
Language Silent (English intertitles)

Out All Night is a 1927 American silent comedy film directed by William A. Seiter and starring Reginald Denny, Marian Nixon, and Wheeler Oakman. [1]

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Plot

As described in a film magazine, [2] John Graham, wealthy young bachelor, falls in love with Molly O’Day, the leading lady in a current musical comedy. After failing to meet her at the theater, he runs across her in the automatic elevator of his apartment house. The elevator breaks down, and when it is repaired the next morning, John and Molly step out and into a taxi headed for the marriage license bureau. Shortly after the wedding, Molly discovers that a clause in her theater contract calls for the loss of $100,000 in case of marriage. They decide to keep the wedding a secret, and when Molly sails with the show for London that afternoon, John boards the boat as the ship’s surgeon. They attempt ruse after ruse to be together, but are frustrated first by the Chief Officer, who had fallen for Molly himself, and then by Molly’s roommate, Rose Lundy. John gets into all kinds of difficulties because of his shortcomings as a surgeon, which are climaxed when he attempts to treat the Captain for gout. In the meantime, the manager of the show troupe has proposed to Molly, and upon being told of the contract, tears it up. At this juncture John comes sliding down a ventilator, where he has been chased by the irate crew, right into Molly’s stateroom. They embrace as the manager gazes ruefully at the torn bits of the contract floating around on the ocean.

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Preservation

With no prints of Out All Night located in any film archives, [3] it is a lost film.

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References

  1. ↑ Progressive Silent Film List: Out All Night at silentera.com
  2. ↑ "Universal Synopses: Out All Night". Universal Weekly. New York City: Motion Picture Weekly Publishing Company. 26 (18): 38. December 10, 1927. Retrieved January 12, 2024.PD-icon.svg This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .
  3. ↑ Library of Congress / FIAF American Silent Feature Film Survival Database: Out All Night


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