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All in a Night's Work is a american film of genre Comedy released in USA on 22 march 1961 with Dean Martin
All in a Night's Work (1961)
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Add to a movie listAll in a Night's Work is a 1961 romantic screwball comedy starring Dean Martin and Shirley MacLaine, and directed by Joseph Anthony.
Synopsis
Tony Ryder's uncle, the wealthy owner of a newspaper, has just died. The young playboy Tony inherits the paper but is left with a board of directors that thinks he's unsuited for the task, plus a hotel detective who thinks Tony should know about a girl who was seen running away from his uncle's Palm Beach hotel room, wearing nothing but a Turkish towel and an earring, on the night of his death.Actors
Dean Martin
(Tony Ryder)
Shirley MacLaine
(Katie Robbins)
Cliff Robertson
(Warren Kingsley, Jr.)
Charles Ruggles
(Dr. Warren Kingsley, Sr)
Norma Crane
(Marge Coombs)
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