One New York Night

{{short description|1935 American comedy film directed by Jack Conway}} {{For|the earlier film|The Trunk Mystery (1926 film)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=February 2026}} {{Infobox film | name = One New York Night | image = File:One New York Night.jpg | alt = | caption = | director = Jack Conway | producer = Bernard H. Hyman | screenplay = Frank Davis | based_on = {{based on|''Order, Please'' 1934 play|Edward Childs Carpenter}} {{based on|''Sorry You've Been Troubled'' 1929 play|Walter Hackett}} | starring = Franchot Tone Una Merkel Conrad Nagel Harvey Stephens Steffi Duna Charles Starrett | music = | cinematography = Oliver T. Marsh | editing = Tom Held | studio = Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | distributor = Loew's Inc. | released = {{Film date|1935|3|3}} | runtime = 71 minutes | country = United States | language = English | budget = | gross = }} '''''One New York Night''''' (also released as '''''The Trunk Mystery''''') is a 1935 American comedy film directed by Jack Conway and written by Frank Davis. The film stars Franchot Tone, Una Merkel, Conrad Nagel, Harvey Stephens, Steffi Duna and Charles Starrett. The film was released on March 3, 1935, by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/1701/one-new-york-night|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110913123202/http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/1701/One-New-York-Night/|url-status=dead|archive-date=September 13, 2011|title=One New York Night (1935) - Overview - TCM.com|work=Turner Classic Movies|access-date=19 November 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://movies.tvguide.com/one-new-york-night/108252|title=One New York Night|work=TV Guide|access-date=19 November 2014}}</ref> It was based on the West End play ''Sorry You've Been Troubled'' by Walter Hackett, which had previously been made into the 1932 British film ''Life Goes On''.

==Plot== Foxhall Ridgeway, a cattle rancher from Wyoming, checks into a New York City hotel, determined to find a wife. Instead he finds a dead body in the room next to his. Meanwhile Countess Broussiloff has asked her friend Phoebe, a switchboard operator at the hotel, to find her bracelet. She lost it in the dead man's room. Foxhall tries to get the hotel manager to call the police, only the body has disappeared. So has the bracelet. Foxhall and Phoebe team up to find the bracelet for the Countess.

== Cast == * Franchot Tone as Foxhall Ridgeway * Una Merkel as Phoebe * Conrad Nagel as Kent * Harvey Stephens as Collis * Steffi Duna as Countess Louise Broussiloff * Charles Starrett as George Sheridan * Louise Henry as Ermine * Tom Dugan as Selby * Harold Huber as Blake * Henry Kolker as Arthur Carlisle

==Reception== Writing for ''The Spectator'', Graham Greene praised the film as "a comedy of astonishing intelligence and finish". Greene emphasized the "witty dialogue, [and] the quick intelligent acting" of Tone and Merkel, commenting that the film felt "[bathed] in an atmosphere fantastic, daring and pleasantly heartless".<ref>{{cite journal |last= Greene|first= Graham|author-link= Graham Greene|date= 9 August 1935|title= The Trunk Mystery/Hands of Orlac/Look Up and Laugh/The Memory Expert|journal= The Spectator}} (reprinted in: {{cite book|editor-last= Taylor|editor-first= John Russell|editor-link= John Russell Taylor|date= 1980|title= The Pleasure Dome|url= https://archive.org/details/pleasuredomegrah00gree/page/11|page= [https://archive.org/details/pleasuredomegrah00gree/page/11 11]|isbn= 0192812866|url-access= registration}})</ref>

==See also== * ''Life Goes On'' (1932)

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==External links== * {{IMDb title|0026823}} * {{TCMDb title|1701}} * {{AFI film|7205}}

Category:1935 films Category:American comedy films Category:1935 comedy films Category:Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer films Category:Films directed by Jack Conway Category:American black-and-white films Category:Films set in hotels Category:American remakes of British films Category:American films based on plays Category:Films based on adaptations Category:1935 English-language films Category:1935 American films Category:Films based on works by Walter Hackett Category:English-language comedy films