One New York Night


One New York Night is a 1935 American comedy film directed by Jack Conway and written by Frank Davis. The film stars Franchot Tone, Una Merkel, Conrad Nagel, Harvey Stephens, Steffi Duna and Charles Starrett. The film was released on March 3, 1935, by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. It was based on the West End play Sorry You've Been Troubled by Walter Hackett, which had previously been made into the 1932 British film Life Goes On.

Plot

Foxhall Ridgeway, a cattle rancher from Wyoming, checks into a New York City hotel, determined to find a wife. Instead he finds a dead body in the room next to his. Meanwhile Countess Broussiloff has asked her friend Phoebe, a switchboard operator at the hotel, to find her bracelet. She lost it in the dead man's room. Foxhall tries to get the hotel manager to call the police, only the body has disappeared. So has the bracelet. Foxhall and Phoebe team up to find the bracelet for the Countess.

Cast

Writing for The Spectator, Graham Greene praised the film as "a comedy of astonishing intelligence and finish". Greene emphasized the "witty dialogue, the quick intelligent acting" of Tone and Merkel, commenting that the film felt " in an atmosphere fantastic, daring and pleasantly heartless".