Tonight's Movie: Night World (1932) - A Kino Lorber Blu-ray Review

NIGHT WORLD (1932), an entertaining 58-minute pre-Code from Universal Pictures, has just been released on Blu-ray by Kino Lorber Studio Classics.The movie, directed by Hobart Henley, starts with a fantastic opening montage of nighttime in New York City.The screenplay, written by Richard Schayer from a story by P.J. Wolfson and Allen Rivkin, then zeroes in on one specific place, a nightclub run by Happy MacDonald (Boris Karloff) and his unfaithful wife Jill (Dorothy Revier).A great deal happens in a single night at Happy's club, including threats to Happy from racketeers; a rich but troubled society man, Michael (Lew Ayres), falling for a sweet dancer, Ruth (Mae Clarke); and the doorman (Clarence Muse) fretting over his hospitalized wife.The movie's tone veers all over the place, including comedy, drama, romance, and shocking violence; believe it or not, there's even a musical number designed by Busby Berkeley!Yet somehow it all works, keeping the audience on its toes; for instance,…

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