The daughter of an industrialist, Dorothy Winston, arranges to work on a newspaper in which her father places a substantial amount of advertising, Joe Madison, the reporter son of the paper's editor, offers to show her the ropes. A gunman employed by Mike Corney lands in jail, and Dorothy succeeds in interviewing him, getting him to divulge the whereabouts of a canceled check that will link Corney to Patterson, a corrupt political boss.
Is What a Night! worth watching today? Honestly, yeah, if you have a soft spot for those late 1920s movies where everyone seems to be moving at 1.5x speed. It’s a perfect pick for people who love the 'spunky girl' trope. If you hate silent films where the plot relies on people losing and finding the same piece of pap...
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Comparing the cinematic DNA and archive impact of two defining moments in cult history.
A. Edward Sutherland
Vernon Stallings
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"Is What a Night! worth watching today? Honestly, yeah, if you have a soft spot for those late 1920s movies where everyone seems to be moving at 1.5x speed. It’s a perfect pick for people who love the 'spunky girl' trope. If you hate silent films where the plot relies on people losing and finding the same piece of paper four times, you’ll probably want to skip this one. Bebe Daniels plays Dorothy Winston, and she is basically the whole movie. She’s got these massive, expressive eyes that do a..."
Bebe Daniels
Grover Jones, Lloyd Corrigan, Louise Long
United States
