One Night in Lisbon

One Night in Lisbon
One Night in Lisbon
Directed by	Edward H. Griffith
Written by	Virginia Van Upp
Based on	There's Always Juliet by John Van Druten
Produced by	Edward H. Griffith
Starring	Fred MacMurray; Madeleine Carroll; Patricia Morison; John Loder;
Cinematography	Bert Glennon
Edited by	Eda Warren
Music by	Victor Young
Production; company	Paramount Pictures
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures
Release date	June 13, 1941;
Running time	97 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

One Night in Lisbon is a 1941 American comedy thriller film directed by Edward H. Griffith and starring Fred MacMurray, Madeleine Carroll and Patricia Morison. It was one of a cycle of pro-British films produced in Hollywood^[1] before the United States' entry into the war in December 1941. The film is based on John Van Druten's 1931 British play There's Always Juliet, updated to include the current wartime situation.^[2]

Plot

Dwight Houston (Fred MacMurray), an American pilot from Texas, meets a British aristocrat in London amid bombing, and gets caught up in a Nazi spy plot in Portugal. At first Houston is critical of Britain, due to what he perceives to be a condescending attitude on the part of Leonora Perrycoate (Madeleine Carroll); however, he soon realizes in fact that as American he has much in common with them, and that their fight is his fight, remarking poignantly that "It's funny about England and the way Americans feel about you. It's sort of like being related in a way. You know the way you feel about relatives. They do a lot of things that irritate you, but when it comes right down to it, you are related. You have the same ideas, speak the same language and have the same plans for the future," and he realizes that he "shares with them a common history, heritage, language and political ideology"^[3]

Cast

Fred MacMurray as Dwight Houston
Madeleine Carroll as Leonora Perrycoate
Patricia Morison as Gerry Houston
John Loder as Cmdr. Peter Walmsley
Billie Burke as Catherine Enfilden
May Whitty as Florence
Edmund Gwenn as Lord Fitzleigh
Reginald Denny as Erich Strasser
Billy Gilbert as Popopopoulos
Marcel Dalio as Concierge
Douglas Walton as Frank
Bruce Wyndham as Strasser's Aide
Herbert Evans as John, the Butler
James Finlayson as Air Raid Warden
Lumsden Hare as Doorman
Billy Bevan as Lord Fitzleigh's Aide
Catherine Craig as Guest
Max Wagner as Waiter
Evan Thomas as Diplomat
Mikhail Rasumny as Restaurant Manager

References

^ Dick p.94-95
^ Pascoe, John (2020-04-17). Madeleine Carroll: Actress and Humanitarian, from The 39 Steps to the Red Cross (in Arabic). McFarland. ISBN 978-1-4766-3559-0.
^ Glancy, H. Mark. When Hollywood Loved Britain: The Hollywood 'British' Film 1939-1945. Manchester University Press, 1999. pg. 111

Bibliography

Dick, Bernard F. The Star-Spangled Screen: The American World War II Film. University Press of Kentucky, 1996.
Glancy, H. Mark. When Hollywood Loved Britain: The Hollywood 'British' Film 1939-1945. Manchester University Press, 1999.

External links

One Night in Lisbon at IMDb
One Night in Lisbon at the TCM Movie Database

[1] Dick p.94-95

[2] Pascoe, John (2020-04-17). Madeleine Carroll: Actress and Humanitarian, from The 39 Steps to the Red Cross (in Arabic). McFarland. ISBN 978-1-4766-3559-0.

[3] Glancy, H. Mark. When Hollywood Loved Britain: The Hollywood 'British' Film 1939-1945. Manchester University Press, 1999. pg. 111

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