Blues in the Night (1941)

★ 6.1 1h 28m IMDb

A struggling band find themselves attached to a fugitive and drawn into a series of old feuds and love affairs, as they try to stay together and find musical success.

Blues in the Night

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Cast

Priscilla Lane
Priscilla Lane as Ginger 'Character' Powell Died 1995 · Indianola, Iowa, USA Priscilla Lane (born Priscilla Mullican) was an American actress, and the youngest of the Lane Sisters of singers and actresses. She is best remembered for her roles in the films The Roaring Twenties...
Betty Field
Betty Field as Kay Grant Died 1973 · Boston, Massachusetts, USA From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Betty Field (February 8, 1913 – September 13, 1973) was an American film and stage actress. Through her father, she was a direct descendant of the Pilgrims John...
Richard Whorf
Richard Whorf as Jigger Pine Died 1966 · Winthrop, Massachusetts, USA From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Richard Whorf (June 4, 1906 – December 14, 1966) was an American actor, author, director, and designer. Richard was born in Winthrop, Massachusetts to Harry an...
Lloyd Nolan
Lloyd Nolan as Del Davis Died 1985 · San Francisco, California, USA From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Lloyd Benedict Nolan (August 11, 1902 – September 27, 1985) was an American film and television actor. Among his many roles, Nolan is remembered for originatin...
Jack Carson
Jack Carson as Leo Powell Died 1963 · Carman, Manitoba, Canada From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia John Elmer "Jack" Carson (October 27, 1910 – January 2, 1963) was a Canadian-born, American film actor, with a film career spanning the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s....
Wallace Ford
Wallace Ford as Brad Ames (as Wally Ford) Died 1966 · Bolton, Lancashire, England, UK Wallace Ford (12 February 1898 – 11 June 1966) was an English-born naturalized American stage and screen actor. Usually playing wise-cracking characters, he combined a tough but friendly-faced demeano...

Audience Reviews

CinemaSerf 7/10 Jul 24, 2025
It’s not often you can call a band of musicians “itinerant” but “Jigger” (Richard Whorf) and his recently assembled ensemble are rehearsing from the luxury of a railroad car as they traverse the country en route to their next gig. Along the way, they rescue “Del” (Lloyd Nolan) whom, after a bit of a rocky start involving some beer, a cheese sandwich and a revolver, they all befriend. He knows of a bar they can get a residency in, and so soon they are finally making some readies. That’s just as well because the chanteuse “Character” (Priscilla Lane) is about to have a bairn. That doesn’t stop her trumpet playing husband “Powell” (Jack Carson) taking a shine to “Kay” (Betty Field) - unaware that she and “Del” have an history that they can’t quite agree is over. Anyway, that soon fizzles out as next “Jigger” tries to get her to lead the band, absconds with her and then returns to the fold a quivering wreck! Still with me? She and “Del” proceed to have a bit of a set-to that ends pretty tragically but wait, that’s not the end of the road, or the railway line… There are a few decent toe-tappers with the title track from Harold Arlen and Johnny Mercer standing out amidst a series of bluesy, barn-dance, style performances. Anchorman Nolan isn’t at his most menacing and the love triangles verge on the comedy wife-swapping at times, but there is an hint of peril now and again and the whole film steams along with competent efforts from all, topped off by a sterling solo effort from the boozed-up Matt McHugh and two ladies who might give alley-cats a run for their money. It wasn’t what I was expecting from the title, and I quite enjoyed this clash of genres.

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