Tonight's the Night (1932 film)

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| director = Monty Banks

| producer =

| writer = Leslie Arliss
Syd Courtenay
Lola Harvey

| starring = Leslie Fuller
Amy Veness
Charles Farrell

| cinematography = Ernest Palmer

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| studio = British International Pictures

| distributor = Wardour Films

| released = {{Film date|1932|05|23|df=yes}}

| runtime = 74 minutes

| country = United Kingdom

| language = English

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Tonight's the Night is a 1932 British comedy film directed by Monty Banks and starring Leslie Fuller, Amy Veness and Charles Farrell.{{cite web|url=http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/54779 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090114020359/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/54779 |url-status=dead |archive-date=14 January 2009 |title=Tonight's the Night (1932) | BFI |publisher=Ftvdb.bfi.org.uk |date=2 July 2015 |accessdate=15 November 2015}} The screenplay concerns a man who is wrongly imprisoned for theft and escapes from jail and tracks down the real culprit. It is also known by the alternative title Tonight's the Night: Pass It On. Leslie Arliss was a co-screenwriter.{{cite book|last1=Katz|first1=Ephraim|last2=Nolen|first2=Ronald Dean|title=The Film Encyclopedia 7e|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OUujVPHXBZIC&pg=PA1688|accessdate=15 November 2015|date=26 February 2013|publisher=HarperCollins|isbn=9780062277114|pages=1688–}} It was shot at the Elstree Studios of British International Pictures.Wood p.73

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Bibliography

  • Low, Rachael. Filmmaking in 1930s Britain. George Allen & Unwin, 1985.
  • Wood, Linda. British Films, 1927-1939. British Film Institute, 1986.