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...Longest Night (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) is the first production effort of shrewd, satchel-faced Sam Marx, erstwhile MGM story editor, super-supervised by Lucien Hubbard. Why such a product should call for twin entrepreneurs remains mysterious, since The Longest Night is designed rather for the Saturday morning diversion of schoolchildren than for the august judgment of the cognoscenti. It is a reasonably brisk embodiment of what neighborhood houses expect from a murder in a department store, including fun in the firearms department, wax dummies that come alive and slap policemen on the shoulder, pistol shots from a secret elevator...
When Newshawk McDowell arrived by automobile at Castel Gandolfo, the Pope's summer snuggery, "I left my hand satchel in the car. It looked too professional. I had the forethought, however, to take out my letter from Cardinal Hayes, and on top of this, fastening it with a clip, I put my New York Times calling card. It was identification. I was all alone. I was not afraid, oh, no. But I might faint or become ill. I knew no Italian and no one there was likely to know any English. And no one there knew me. Folded...
Wallace has a tender spot in his heart for honey-mooners since he rescued a satchel of jewelry, a will, a baby carriage, and other personal effects for a motoring couple who were too wrapped up in themselves to notice a river in front of them...
...relies partly for his effects on his white dress-suit with ludicrously long tails. Windy, muggle-smoking Louis Armstrong has never had patience or skill to build an orchestra of his own. He is happy strutting before any good hot band where he can introduce himself as "The Reverend Satchel Mouth" and proceed to triple-tongue a cornet at incredible speed...
...less certain of who he is, Comedian Jimmy ("Schnozzle") Durante in his fattest cinema part to date gets a full-bodied chance to be hysterically himself. He sings several songs, goes into his famed epileptic fits with popping eyes, rudder nose (schnozzle) and satchel-mouth. When he gets thrown out of places, he dusts himself off absently, saves face by a victorious 11011 sequitur. Cinema audiences are shocked into laughter, as were once Manhattan nightclub audiences, when frail-looking (155-lb.) little Durante survives awful batterings, establishes the immortality of the comedian. Born in Manhattan's lower East Side...