Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 94 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.
The story
Tom Destry, son of a legendary frontier peacekeeper, doesn’t believe in gunplay. Thus he becomes the object of widespread ridicule when he rides into the wide-open town of Bottleneck, the personal fiefdom of the crooked Kent.
- deputy
- black and white
- lawman
- playful
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
James Stewart
Tom Destry Jr.
Marlene Dietrich
Frenchy
Mischa Auer
Boris
Charles Winninger
Washington Dimsdale
- Brian Donlevy — Kent
- Allen Jenkins — Gyp Watson
- Warren Hymer — Bugs Watson
- Irene Hervey — Janice Tyndall
- Una Merkel — Lily Belle
- Billy Gilbert — Loupgerou
- Samuel S. Hinds — Judge Slade
- Jack Carson — Jack Tyndall
- Tom Fadden — Lem Claggett
- Virginia Brissac — Sophie Claggett
- Edmund MacDonald — Rockwell (as Edmund Macdonald)
- Directed
- George Marshall
- Written
- Henry Myers, Gertrude Purcell, Felix Jackson
Production
- Rating
- 7.2 / 10 · 201 ratings
- Studio
- Universal 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.
