Blues in the Night

1941
Approved
1h 28min

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Elia Kazan, Jack Carson, Betty Field, Priscilla Lane, and Richard Whorf in Blues in the Night (1941)

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Crime Drama Music Musical

Jigger, un sombrío pianista de jazz, lidera una big band en apuros. Su suerte mejora cuando consiguen una actuación en una posada, pero surgen complicaciones cuando Jigger se encapricha de u... Leer todoJigger, un sombrío pianista de jazz, lidera una big band en apuros. Su suerte mejora cuando consiguen una actuación en una posada, pero surgen complicaciones cuando Jigger se encapricha de una insensible cantante del bar.Jigger, un sombrío pianista de jazz, lidera una big band en apuros. Su suerte mejora cuando consiguen una actuación en una posada, pero surgen complicaciones cuando Jigger se encapricha de una insensible cantante del bar.

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Nominado para 1 premio Óscar
- 1 premio y 1 nominación en total

Barney
(as Charles Wilson)

Matt McHugh

Drunk

Jimmie Lunceford and His Orchestra

A Barnstorming Band
(as Jimmy Lunceford and His Band)

Will Osborne's Orchestra

Guy Heiser's Band
(as Will Osborne and His Band)

Jean Ames

Jitterbug
(sin acreditar)

Más del estilo

7,6

Kapò

6,8

Lejos de la niebla

6,8

Defiendo mi vida

6,8

El extraño del tercer piso

7,1

6,2

6,8

6,7

6,5

6,2

6,4

7,2

Argumento

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Curiosidades
The melody of "The Man That Got Away" was written for this film as an up-tempo song called "I Can't Believe My Eyes". Harold Arlen disliked the Johnny Mercer lyrics and put it in his trunk unused, only to pull it out years later to give to Ira Gershwin, who wrote masterful new lyrics for Ha nacido una estrella (1954).

Pifias
When Jigger and his pals are in St. Louis at the beginning of the film, a fight breaks out in the bar they are playing at the bartender calls the cops. The police car shown responding is clearly marked from the New York Police Deptartment, 18th Precinct.

Citas
Character: [to Kay] I'd slap you in the mouth if I thought it would do you any good.

Conexiones
Featured in TCM Guest Programmer: Matt Groening (2007)

Banda sonora
Blues in the Night
(1941)
Music by Harold Arlen
Lyrics by Johnny Mercer
Played during the opening credits
Sung by William Gillespie (uncredited) in jail
Played and sung during a montage
Reprised often by Richard Whorf (uncredited) at the piano (dubbed by Stan Wrightsman) (uncredited)
Used often as background music

Reseñas de usuarios39

Reseña destacada

9/10

A neglected near-masterpiece

Everybody's heard of this movie because of the famous title song, but almost nobody's ever seen it. It defies genre classification -- both a musical drama and a sort of missing link between the Warners gangster movies of the 1930s (mugs, molls, and rat-a-tat dialogue) and 1940s film noir (femme fatale, dark shadows, smoky atmosphere, seamy underside of life). It's a genuine one-of-a-kind movie that deserves to be much better remembered than it is.

However, one commenter here needs to refresh his memory; BLUES IN THE NIGHT has nothing whatever to do with the career of Jimmy Lunceford or any other famous musician of the period. It's about a small jazz combo, not a big band, and they begin and end the movie as obscure journeymen living from hand to mouth between gigs.