
Night World
ComedyCrimeDramaMusical
⭐ 6.9 / 10(546)
Story of the goings-on at a Prohibition-era nightclub.
- Runtime
- 58m
- Released
- 1932
- Country
- United States
Details
Release year: 1932
Storyline
Story of the goings-on at a Prohibition-era nightclub.
Top credits
Directors
Cast
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Lew Ayres — Michael Rand
Mae Clarke — Ruth Taylor
Boris Karloff — 'Happy' MacDonald
Dorothy Revier — Jill MacDonald
Did you know
• Mae Clarke was sick during most of the production of The Impatient Maiden (1932) and this film, which were made back-to-back. At the end of this film, she was so sick that her face swelled up and she was having hallucinations. She was able to go for detox treatments in Palm Springs and Pasadena.
• The costumes the chorus girls wear in the second number (which ends act one) are reused from the "Happy Feet" number from King of Jazz (1930)
• Mae Clarke and Boris Karloff had co-starred the previous year in Frankenstein (1931).
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Technical specs
- Sound mix
- Mono
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
- Color
- Black and White


















