ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT  is enjoyable 1941 nonsense, designed to buck-up spirits for the coming bloodbath. It has Broadway gambler ‘Gloves Donahue’ (Humphrey Bogart) and his mush-hearted hood cronies stumbling onto a Nazi spy ring operating in The Big Apple. Those slimy ‘Heinies’ are played by Conrad Veidt, Peter Lorre and Judith Anderson, all of them good & hissable. Among those fighting for Democracy are a 25-year old Jackie Gleason and a 29-year old Phil Silvers.

Guess which side he’s on?

It’s too long at 107 minutes, but as directed by Vincent Sherman, there is enough sleuthing, villainy, sentiment, double-talk and comedy in here to get a smile one way or another, unless you’re just a total sourpuss.

Jackie Gleason

It came in on a tailwind at #67 for the year, which was breakout time for Bogart, as the 42-year-old star hit homers with High Sierra and The Maltese Falcon. On the heels of ‘Falcon‘, this was the second of five Bogart-Lorre teamups, followed by Casablanca, Passage To Marseille and Beat The Devil.

With Kaaren Verne, Jane Darwell, William Demarest, Frank McHugh, Martin Kosleck, Barton MacLane and Wallace Ford.