Although it might sound like some lightweight Lubitsch musical comedy, History is Made at Night is actually a drama in which elegant head waiter Charles Boyer is framed on a murder charge after extricating love interest Jean Arthur from a blackmail plot engineered by her wealthy and extremely jealous estranged husband. It's a good movie until the final act, but is undone by weaknesses in the far-fetched plot. Also, the two stars never really click, even though the suave and charming Bowyer is excellent; and that weird bromance between him and top chef Leo Carrillo just feels wrong. On a more positive note, the ill-fated Colin Clive is arrestingly intense in his penultimate film role.
Review of History Is Made at Night
