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Roadhouse Nights is a american film of genre Drama directed by Hobart Henley released in USA on 23 february 1930 with Helen Morgan

Roadhouse Nights (1930)

Roadhouse Nights
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Released in USA 23 february 1930
Length 1h8
Directed by
OriginUSA
Genres Drama
Rating60% 3.000653.000653.000653.000653.00065

Roadhouse Nights is a 1930 American Pre-Code gangster film. A number of sources including Sally Cline in her book Dashiell Hammett Man of Mystery claim it is based on the classic novel Red Harvest written by Dashiell Hammett (author of The Maltese Falcon, The Thin Man, and The Glass Key). However the credits of the film itself say only "An Original Screenplay by Ben Hecht." Hammett receives no mention at all (and the plots are not similar).

The movie, an unusual amalgam of musical comedy and gangster melodrama, was directed by Hobart Henley, stars Helen Morgan, Charles Ruggles, and Fred Kohler, and features a rare screen musical comedy performance by Jimmy Durante, in his screen debut, with his vaudeville partners Lou Clayton and Eddie Jackson ("Clayton, Jackson, and Durante"). Helen Morgan also sings It Can't Go On Like This.

Actors

Helen Morgan

(Lola Fagan)Charles Ruggles

(Willie Bindbugel)Fred Kohler

(Sam Horner)Jimmy Durante

(Daffy (as Durante))Joe King

(John Hanson)Tammany Young

(Jerry)
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