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The Longest Night (1936)

• Director
  • Errol Taggart
• Writers
  • Robert Hardy Andrews(screenplay)
  • Cortland Fitzsimmons(novel "The Whispering Window")
• Stars
  • Robert Young
  • Florence Rice
  • Ted Healy

  The Longest Night is a curious title choice for this fast-paced mystery; at 50 minutes, it was the shortest feature film ever produced by MGM. Robert Young plays the manager of a department store targeted by gangsters. Young's romance with store clerk Florence Rice is threatened when the bad guys start muscling in. Accused of stealing merchandise, Young has to cogitate--and utilize his fists--to clear himself. Screenwriter Robert Andrews adapted The Longest Night from a short story (evidently a very short story) by Cortland Fitzsimmons.