Open All Night

Open All Night

1924 · 64 min · ★ 8.5 · Comedy

Therese Duverne (Viola Dana) is bored with her even-tempered husband, Edmond (Adolphe Menjou). Isabelle Fevre (Gale Henry) suggests that Edmond go to the bicycle races and stay out all night. Then she takes Therese there and introduces her to manly Petit Mathieu, one of the racers (Maurice B. Flynn). Since he has just quarreled with his sweetheart, Lea (Jetta Goudal), he is glad to have Therese's attention and offers to run away with her after he wins the six-day race. Lea, meanwhile, is spending her time with Edmond. Therese eventually decides she doesn't care for brutes like Mathieu, and Edmond gains a temper and wins his wife back. Lea and Mathieu are reunited, while Isabelle goes back to helping her own alcoholic sweetheart, Igor (Raymond Griffith), break into the movies.

Directed by Paul Bern · Written by Paul Morand

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Viola Dana Thérèse Duverne
Jetta Goudal Lea
Adolphe Menjou Edmund Durverne
Raymond Griffith Igor
Maurice 'Lefty' Flynn Petit Mathieu
Gale Henry Isabelle Fèvre
Jack Giddings Von De Hoven
Károly Huszár Bibendum
Louise Emmons Bicycle Race Spectator
Reed Howes American Bicyclist
Bynunsky Hyman Bicycle Race Spectator
Joe Murphy Bicycle Race Spectator

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