Open All Night

Frank Vosper was the Grand Duke of Russia. Now he's the night manager of the Paragon House Hotel, hoping for a promotion to general manager. It's a popular night spot, where all sorts of people mingle and, as call girl Gillian Lind says a couple of times, nothing ever happens.

This Grand Hotel rip-off from Quota Quickie specialist Twickenham Studios focuses more on the events surrounding Vosper than the better remembered MGM all-star production. It's also much more urbane, with its focus on the middle class and the struggling lower class and some real problems. A man tries to get a loan back,so he can take his dying wife to a Viennese specialist to save her; Geraldine Fitzgerald (in her second screen appearance) 'borrows' twenty pounds from her employer and is being blackmailed by her manager; and a bellhop doesn't understand why he is to tell a lady it's an hour later than it is.

It's certainly not a great movie under the direction of George Pearson. Twickenham didn't do those, and Pearson's star had fallen very far from the silent era. But it tells its stories quickly and facilely.