ID

FBW001268      Fiction

Country / Year

USA, 1941

Original Title

One Night in Lisbon

Directed by

Edward H. Griffith

Produced by

Paramount Pictures, Inc., Los Angeles, CA / New York, NY

Staff

Producer: Edward H. Griffith; Script: Virginia Van Upp; Based on: John Van Druten (based on the play "There's Always Juliet"); Camera: Bert Glennon; Editing: Eda Warren; Production design: Hans Dreier, Ernst Fegté; Music: Sigmund Krumgold

Cast

Fred MacMurray (Dwight Houston); Madeleine Carroll (Leonora Perrycoate); Patricia Morison (Gerry Houston); Billie Burke (Catherine Enfilden); John Loder (Cmdr. Peter Walmsley); Dame May Whitty (Florence); Edmund Gwenn (Lord Fitzleigh); Reginald Denny (Erich Strasser); Billy Gilbert (Popopopoulos); Marcel Dalio (Concierge); Bruce Wyndham (Strasser's Aide); Jerry Mandy (Popopopoulos' Waiter); Billy Bevan (Lord Fitzleigh's Aide); Mikhail Rasumny (Manager of Restaurant); Douglas Walton (Frank); Walter Bryon (Dinner Guest); Barbara Denny (Party Guest); Catherine Craig (Guest); Keith Richards (Guest); Herbert Evans (John the Butler); David Clyde (Cab Driver); James Finlayson (Air Raid Warden); Harry Allen (Air Raid Warden); Keith Hitchcock (Policeman); Evan Thomas (Diplomat); Lumsden Hare (Doorman); Francisco Maran (Waiter); Antoinette Valdez (Fado Singer); Loulette Sablon (French Maid); Gavin Muir (Aide); Pete Peterson (Sailor)

Length

97'

Format

35mm/sw/1:1,37

Abstract

Dwight Houston is an airman from Texas who ferries warplanes from the US to England. While hiding out in a London air-raid shelter, Houston meets Leonera Perrycoate, a proper, well-mannered English girl who has learned to expect the most formal of behavior from men. Houston, with his Texas twang, is completely foreign to her, but he does manage to win her. When the skies clear, Houston and Perrycoate set out to have themselves a carefree time, but obstacles get in their way. Peter Walmsley, Houston's rival for Perrycoate's affections--a very proper Royal Navy commander--consistently makes a crowd of their twosome. Houston's former wife, Gerry Houston, also pops up. They take a trip to neutral Lisbon, where they get ensnarled in a spy ring. It's up to them to crack it, which they do before Dwight Houston proposes to Perrycoate and invites her to return to America with him.

Subject Terms

Anti-Nazi films (US)

Bibliography

- Nash, Ray R. / Ross, Stanley R. / Conelly, Robert B. (Ed.): Motion Picture Guide. Chicago, IL: Cinebooks, 1987