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MPAA Rating: NR Content Advisory: Questionable for Children, Sexual Situations Movie Release: 1961 DVD Release: 02/22/2005 Format: DVD - Enhanced Wide Screen Letterbox for 16x9 TV - Closed Captioned Edition: Special Collection Audio Tracks: English Subtitles: English SwapaDVD Credits: 1 Number of Discs: 1 Run Time: 1 hrs 34 mins Studio: Paramount Members Wishing: 4 Genres: Comedy, Satire, Farce, Screwball Comedy

Tony Ryder (Dean Martin) thinks that Katie Robbins (Shirley MacLaine) was the mistress of a recently deceased millionaire. On this fragile plot peg hangs the rest of All in a Night's Work. The millionaire died with a smile on his face, and Tony, who stands to inherit the dead man's publishing business, suspects that Katie, who has been left a fortune, administered the "favors" that pushed the old coot into the great beyond. Katie, wholly innocent, resents Tony's implications and gives him the brush-off. All turns out for the good when Tony realizes that he loves Katie for herself and not for her legacy. It took three writers (five, if you count the authors of the play upon which this film is based) to cook up the tickle-and-tease souffle that we've come to know as All in a Night's Work. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Dean Martin - Tony Ryder
Shirley MacLaine - Katie Robbins
Cliff Robertson - Warren Kingsley, Jr.
Norma Crane - Marge Coombs

Joseph Anthony's All in a Night's Work (1961) is hardly one of Dean Martin's or Shirley MacLaine's better-known movies, and isn't shown very often on television, so the Paramount DVD release will be a lot of people's first chance to see it. It has arrived in a beautiful film-to-video transfer, with deep, rich hues in all the rights spots, but overall, highly naturalistic color and good, sharp detail; even in the first exterior shot, on Park Avenue at 57th Street (in front of what is, ironically enough, the New York headquarters of Universal Pictures), it's genuinely difficult to tell if it is back-projection (which it is) or a location shot. The letterboxed non-anamorphic image (1.85:1) frames the action well, enhancing the fluid camera work and editing of the light-textured, light-hearted comedy. The 94-minute movie has been given 14 chapters, which are adequate to delineate a plot fairly heavy on flashbacks. The disc opens automatically on a simple two-layer menu -- there is no trailer or other bonus feature. ~ Bruce Eder, All Movie Guide