Larry Gilmore must marry by a certain date to inherit a fortune. He is besieged by women anxious to assist in getting the money.


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" ::selection{background:#EAB308;color:#000}h2{color:#C2410C;margin-top:2.5rem;margin-bottom:1rem;font-weight:700}h3{color:#0E7490;margin-top:2rem;margin-bottom:.8rem}a{color:#EAB308;text-decoration:underline}a:hover{color:#C2410C} Picture a metropolis where marriage bureaus double as stock exchanges and every engagement ring is a futures contract—this is the gleefully mercantile world Joseph F. Poland conjures in The Great Night. The film’s very title drips with irony: the “great” night is less..."

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