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One Exciting Night (Original title)Musical Set in Wartime London (Archive title)Music in the Night (Working title)You Can't Do without Love (Alternative title)
Date: 04 December 1944 (Release)

Country: United Kingdom

Director: Walter Forde

Synopsis: Comedy of a singer who accidentally meets a man who is the victim of a kidnap plot and is assumed by the gang to be his girlfriend.

Genres:
Comedy, Crime, Musical
Releases
Date: 1944Country: United KingdomRelease type: unknownFormat: 35mm Film - Black and White - SoundRuntime: 89 mins Length: 8080 FeetDialogue (original): English

Credits (21)
Production Company: Columbia (British) Productions, Producer: Ben Henry, Associate Producer: Culley Forde, Assistant Director: Mike Johnson Jr, Assistant Director: Percy Hermes, Screen Play by: Howard Irving Young, Peter Fraser, Additional Dialogue by: Margaret Kennedy, Emery Bonett, Story by: Peter Fraser, Director of Photography: Otto Heller, Camera Operator: Gus Drisse, Editor: Terence Fisher, Assistant Film Editor: May Dennington, Art Director: Norman Arnold, Costume Designer: Dorothy Broomham, Make-up: Gerry Fletcher, Sound: Cecil V. Thornton, Sound: Ernest A. Royls, Sound System: RCA Sound System
Cast (14)
RAF Dance Orchestra (themselves), Vera Lynn (Vera Baker), Donald Stewart (Michael Thorne), Frederick Leister (Arnold Hampion), Mary Clare (Mrs Trout), Phyllis Stanley (Lucille), Cyril Smith (Joe), Mavis Villiers (Mabel), Jeanette Redgrave (Ellen), Richard Murdoch (himself), Patricia Owens, Sidney Monckton, Irene Handl (Mrs Harper), Peggy Ann Clifford (Bessie)