"Happy" MacDonald and his unfaithful wife own a Prohibition era night club. On this eventful night, he is threatened by bootleggers, and the club's star dancer falls in love with a young socialite who drinks to forget a personal tragedy, among other incidents.
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Lew Ayres as Michael Rand
Mae Clarke as Ruth Taylor
Boris Karloff as 'Happy' MacDonald
Dorothy Revier as Jill MacDonald
Russell Hopton as Klauss
Hedda Hopper as Mrs. Rand
Clarence Muse as Tim Washington, the Doorman
Dorothy Peterson as Edith Blair
Bert Roach as Tommy
George Raft as Ed Powell
Gene Morgan as Joe
Huntley Gordon as Jim
Robert Emmett O'Connor as The Policeman
Arletta Duncan as Cigarette Girl
Alice Adair as Chorine (uncredited)
Frank Beal as Bit (uncredited)
Richard Schayer Screenplay
John Hughes Art Direction
Carl Laemmle Jr. Producer
Hobart Henley Director
P.J. Wolfson Story
Allen Rivkin Story
Ted J. Kent Editor
Merritt B. Gerstad Director of Photography
Alfred Newman Original Music Composer
Mundo Noturno Trailer
Vida Nocturna Trailer
Portugal 26 June 1933
United States 04 May 1932
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Date of Release: May 5 1932 Director: Hobart Henley Cast: Lew Ayres Mae Clarke Boris Karloff Reference: Posted for ...
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