Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 102 min
- Age rating
- NR
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
- Reviewed better than most films in the catalogue.
The story
David Huxley is waiting to get a bone he needs for his museum collection. Through a series of strange circumstances, he meets Susan Vance, and the duo have a series of misadventures which include a leopard called Baby.
- prison
- donation
- museum
- zoo
- paleontologist
- leopard
- bone
- cross dressing
- black and white
- psychiatrist
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- Barry Fitzgerald — Mr. Gogarty
- May Robson — Aunt Elizabeth
- Fritz Feld — Dr. Lehman
- Leona Roberts — Mrs. Gogarty
- George Irving — Mr. Peabody
- Tala Birell — Mrs. Lehman
- Virginia Walker — Alice Swallow
- John Kelly — Elmer
- William Benedict — David's Caddy (uncredited)
- Billy Bevan — Joe (uncredited)
- Ward Bond — Motorcycle Cop (uncredited)
- Directed
- Howard Hawks
- Written
- Hagar Wilde, Dudley Nichols
Production
- Rating
- 7.5 / 10 · 1,091 ratings
- Studio
- RKO Radio Pictures
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
