The plot of this film is REALLY silly. I'll admit this yet say that it's STILL worth seeing. The film begins as a sort of "nice gangster" film--Bogey is a "heart of gold" hood who leads a gang of seemingly nice petty thugs. Of course this Robin Hood-like group is a giant cliché, but it's so much fun watching them that you soon forget how silly this is. BUT, just when you thought this little murder mystery couldn't get any sillier or more clichéd, it does. It turns out that this seemingly run of the mill murder is really the work of an evil group of Nazi infiltrators!!! Then, once Bogey's gang figures this out, they prove they are really good loyal American down deep and kick the snot out of the Germans! This is all good silly fun and, as far as American propaganda films go, it's one of the best. Plus, for fans like me who love familiar movie extras, this one is jam-packed--with Frank McHugh, William Demarest and a very young Jackie Gleason (among others) as well as Conrad Veidt and Peter Lorre as the "baddies".
Review of All Through the Night
