Hulkeasexo it is the rare 'crazy' movie that actually has something to say.

Clarissa Mora The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.

Marva-nova Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.

Skyler Great movie. Not sure what people expected but I found it highly entertaining.

Dan Franzen (dfranzen70) All through the Night, one of Humphrey Bogart's lesser-known films, is an often-funny, tightly written spy caper wherein our antihero, playing "promoter" Gloves Donahue, finds himself in the middle of a nest of Nazis trying to sabotage a battleship in New York City.It seems that local baker Joe has been murdered by persons unknown. Then Leda (Kaaren Verne), a mysterious woman, shows up looking for Joe. Gloves, at the behest of his well-meaning Ma (Jane Darwell), looks into the matter, but soon he's suspect number one himself. What will happen when Gloves finds out who's behind Joe's murder? Who is this dizzy dame with the cool accent? And when will Gloves figure out that Nazis are involved? The answers may not surprise you.Surrounding Gloves are characters straight out of Damon Runyon or Chester Gould's Dick Tracy. His right-hand man is named Sunshine (William Demarest, not known for his sunny attitude). His gofer and second top accomplice is Barney (Frank McHugh), who throughout the film begs Gloves to give him a few minutes' leave to be with his girl - whom he marries during the movie and who's on screen for maybe five minutes. That's the life of a wiseguy. Also among Gloves' crew are a waiter (Phil Silvers) and Starchy, played by the one and only Jackie Gleason, billed with a middle initial of C. for this early role.On the bad-guy side of the ledger is ringleader Franz Ebbing (Conrad Veidt), his top man Pepi (Peter Lorre), and maybe Leda. Others, too, but they're not consequential. The ring operates out of a high-class auction house, where Sunshine and Gloves are just a tad out of place. But the dialog! Just check out some of the zingers. When Gloves spots a portrait of Hitler on the wall at the gang's headquarters - and this is before Pearl Harbor - he exclaims, "I recognize the face but I don't know where to put it. Hey, there's more here than meets the FBI!" When Barney is rebuffed again about trying to see his girl/wife, he laments having to spend his honeymoon with Sunshine, who deadpans, "Well, I can cook." It's a treat to see such tough, hardened baddies whip out such jumping lines.Essentially, this is a propaganda film made to convince America to join in the fun that would later be called World War II, but it's never over the top. It dabbles in patriotism and focuses its energy on the thrill of the spy chase and the juice of busting up terrorists. And terrorists these are, even in the modern sense, as a suicide bombing comes into play near the end.It's not one of Bogie's better-known films, but All through the Night is absolutely terrific. You tend to forget how gifted the man was at comedy (see his later We're No Angels, for example). He's got the moves, he's got the patter, he's got the girl, and he's got the moxie. Great job all around.

sol ***SPOILERS*** Humphrey Bogart as big time gambler and cheesecake lover,that's the pastry not the sexy women kind, Gloves Donahue uncovers a Nazi spy ring ring in Manhattans Yorkville section and with the help of his somewhat shady or mobbed up friends goes to put it out of business. Bogie or Gloves first got an inkling of what's was happening when his good friend and bakery owner German/American Mr.Miller, Ludwig Stossel, was found dead in his bakery with a broken neck. Mr. Miller has been working with the Nazi ring only because he has family back in Nazi Germany who's lives were endangered if he did't. It's when Mr. Miller's Nazi contact Pepi, Peter Lorrie, wanted him to go a step farther, in killing US sailors, that he refused which cost him his life! Despite Gloves efforts to alert the police to what's going on he in fact becomes their #1 suspect, in Pepi planting one of Gloves' gloves at the murder scene, in Mr. Miller's murder!As things turn out it's nightclub singer Leda Hamilton, Kaaren Verne, who also works for the Nazi spy and sabotage ring who helps Gloves out in that she finds out that her German born father who was being head hostage by the Nazis in Germany's notorious Dachau concentration camp was murdered by them. As Gloves and his friend and fellow mobster Sunsine, William Dmarest, find out from the head of the spy ring himself Ebbing, Conred Veidt, the big plan is to knock out a US Navy battleship docked in Brooklyn's Gravesend Bay. And the plan to do it is by using a motorboat loaded with high explosives with Ebbing and his fellow Nazi Pepi smashing into it, kamikaze style, at full breakneck speed blasting the ship to kingdom come! With Gloves on his own and wanted by the police he has to rely on his fellow mobsters to get the job, in stopping the motorboat attack, done all by themselves. And with time running out it would take next to a miracle for that to happen. But with Gloves Leda and the boys going into action that miracle can very well be achieved!Released on December 2, 1941 just five days before the Japansese attack on Pearl Harbor and nine days after German Furher Adolph Hitler's Declaration of War against the US the movie "All Through the Night's" release couldn't have been more timely! Even though when it was released at a time when the US & Nazi German as well as Imperial Japan were technically still at peace with each other! Even more ironic was the planned attack by Nazi fanatic Ebbing on a US Navy battleship which was eerily reminiscent of the Al-Qeada attack on the US Navy warship USS Cole sixty years later on October 12, 2000 in the Bay of Yemen on the Red Sea. Did the Al-Qeada terrorist organization get their idea to do in the USS Cole by watching the film "All Through the Night" that may have inspire them to do it?

Frank G. There's a number of things in this movie that keep the the watcher on their toes entertained all the way through.A nice conspiracy plot twist between the United States and Nazi's using rackets in the country. You can easily make a very serious movie about this that could be a suspense thriller. That could have been done, but what made this film different was the comedy twist. Sure some of it is a little too goofy for some people, but it made it more fun, and enjoyable. Without the comedy side, this could have been "just another suspense movie during the war" but they tried to make it better than that.Bogie does his thing as he is known to do, and even though he's not known for funny parts, he plays his comic roles very well in this tale.I would recommend this to any classic movie fan that wants a conspiracy movie from this decade that is the complete opposite of what you normally find in a WWII related film.

wes-connors Broadway bookie Humphrey Bogart (as "Gloves" Donahue) is ticked when his favorite cheesecake, from "Miller's Home Bakery", isn't served at one of his favorite eateries. Investigating the matter leads the discerning taste-budded Mr. Bogart to discover his favorite baker has been shot dead by sneaky Peter Lorre (as Pepi). Now, Bogart is more than ticked. Hot on the trail, Bogart meets duplicitous songstress Kaaren Verne (as Leda Hamilton), who leads him to a New York City gang of Nazi sympathizers."All Through the Night" begins as a broad, Damon Runyon-stylized comedy. "Miller's" cheesecake is, of course, swiped from Mr. Runyon's "Mindy's" (by way of "Lindy's"). It's startling to see Bogart walk on-screen to join his henchmen - cantankerous William Demarest (as Sunshine) is bantering with jovial Jackie Gleason (as Starchy) as waiter Phil Silvers (as Louie) mediates. The soundtrack sometimes enters cartoon territory. Then, it gets deadly serious. The incongruence is amazing, the cast unique.***** All Through the Night (12/2/41) Vincent Sherman ~ Humphrey Bogart, Kaaren Verne, William Demarest, Peter Lorre