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Blues in the Night (1941)
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88 min | Crime, Drama, Music

Blues in the Night (1941)

Passed

88 min | Crime, Drama, Music

"Jigger' Pine forms a band that includes singer Ginger 'Character' Powell, wife of the trumpeter Leo Powell, and Nickie Haroyen and Peppi. All of them dedicate themselves to work as a unit and to play blues music. The dedication isn't ...See more"Jigger' Pine forms a band that includes singer Ginger 'Character' Powell, wife of the trumpeter Leo Powell, and Nickie Haroyen and Peppi. All of them dedicate themselves to work as a unit and to play blues music. The dedication isn't paying off financially and, while riding the rails in a boxcar, they meet and befriend gangster Del Davis. He offers them a job at a New Jersey roadhouse, where Powell falls in love with Kay Grant, a former 'real good friend' of Davis. But when Powell learns that Character is about to have a baby, he returns to her. Jigger tries to make Kay the band's singer and, after this fails, runs off with her. She leaves him with nothing but a nervous breakdown. Back at the roadhouse, after his recovery, Kay shows up, has a quarrel with Davis, shoots and kills him, and plans to take back up with Jigger, who knows better but just can't help himself. While she is waiting in a car for him, along comes cripple Brad Ames, who she put in that condition, and he gets in and drives the car over a cliff, leaving no survivors in the two-passenger crash. The band is back together at the end, still using boxcars as their transportation, but happy playing the blues. Written by Les Adams See less

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61 cast members

Name	Known for
Priscilla Lane Character Character See fewer	Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
Betty Field Kay Grant Kay Grant See fewer	Of Mice and Men (1939)
Richard Whorf Jigger Pine Jigger Pine See fewer	Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
Lloyd Nolan Del Davis Del Davis See fewer	Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)
Jack Carson Leo Powell Leo Powell See fewer	Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958)
Wallace Ford Brad Ames Brad Ames See fewer	Freaks (1932)
Elia Kazan Nickie Haroyan Nickie Haroyan See fewer	On the Waterfront (1954)
Peter Whitney Pete Bossett Pete Bossett See fewer	The Big Heat (1953)
Billy Halop Peppi Peppi See fewer	Angels with Dirty Faces (1938)
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