Blues In The Night (1941) - (Movie Clip) Here's Your Butt

Blues in the Night - (Original Trailer)

The members of a traveling jazz band try to keep their leader (Richard Whorf) from drinking himself to death in Blues in the Night (1941).

Blues In The Night (1941) -- (Movie Clip) Jimmie Lunceford

Jigger (Richard Whorf) and the gang exhort Leo (Jack Carson) to show off his chops in a dinner club being blown down by the real Jimmie Lunceford and his band in Anatole Litvak's Blues In The Night, 1941.

Blues In The Night (1941) -- (Movie Clip) The Dream's On Me

Priscilla Lane (as "Character") performing the Harold Arlen-Johnny Mercer standard "The Dream's On Me" leading into drama featuring Richard Whorf, Howard Da Silva and Wallace Ford, in Blues In The Night, 1941.

Blues In The Night (1941) -- (Movie Clip) Hang On To Your Lids!

Travel montage to jazz band in a freight car, Priscilla Lane (as "Character"), Elia Kazan (the future famous director) on clarinet, Jack Carson on trumpet, Richard Whorf (also later a prominent director) on guitar, with Harold Arlen and Johnny Mercer's "Hang On To Your Lids," from Blues In The Night, 1941.

Blues in the Night -- (Movie Clip) Opening Credits

Opening credits hardly suggest what's in store in Anatole Litvak's musical-crime-romance-comedy Blues in the Night, 1941, starring Priscilla Lane, Jack Carson, Elia Kazan and Richard Whorf.

Blues In The Night (1941) -- (Movie Clip) It Got Too Hot

Vampy Kay (Betty Field) negotiating with escaped convict and ex-gang boss Del (Lloyd Nolan) then trampling on her lackey semi-boyfriend Brad (Wallace Ford) in a grim scene from Anatole Litvak's Blues In The Night, 1941.