Glamorous Night (film)

Glamorous Night is a 1937 British drama film directed by Brian Desmond Hurst and starring Mary Ellis, Otto Kruger, Victor Jory and Barry MacKay. It is an adaptation of the musical Glamorous Night by Ivor Novello. In a mythical European kingdom, King Stefan clashes with his prime minister and falls in love with the gypsy Melitza.

Cast

 * Mary Ellis as Melitza Hjos
 * Otto Kruger as King Stefan
 * Victor Jory as Baron Lyadeff
 * Barry MacKay as Anthony Allan
 * Trefor Jones as Lorenti
 * Maire O'Neill as Phoebe
 * Anthony Holles as Maestro
 * Charles Carson as Otto
 * Felix Aylmer as Diplomat
 * Finlay Currie as Angus MacKintosh
 * Raymond Lovell as Ship's Officer

Critical reception
Sky Movies wrote, "The story creaks like a dowager's stays in this torrid tale of Ruritanian romance and skulduggery based on Ivor Novello's stage success. There are compensations, however, in the tuneful music and elegant production values, to say nothing of gipsies who appear to be addicted to ballet dancing. Victor Jory plays the villainous prime minister with steely determination and an American accent, Mary Ellis is suitably lively although she is hardly a believable Romany. Barry Mackay stands out as an English oil prospector, the role originally played on stage by Novello." Writing for The Spectator in 1937, Graham Greene gave the film a mixed review, describing it as "about as bogus as a film could be", but praising Novello's efforts to bring the film "up to date", and appreciating the photography, the camerawork, the direction, and Ellis' "daemonic good looks".