Night into Morning

Night Into Morning
Directed by Fletcher Markle
Produced by Edwin H. Knopf
Screenplay by Karl Tunberg
Leonard Spigelgass
Starring Ray Milland
John Hodiak
Nancy Davis
Music by Carmen Dragon
Cinematography George J. Folsey
Edited by Robert Watts
Distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release dates
  • June 8, 1951 (1951-06-08)
Running time
86 minutes
Country United States
Language English
Budget $777,000[1]
Box office $819,000[1]

Night Into Morning is a 1951 American drama film starring Ray Milland and Nancy Davis.

Plot

Everything is going very well for college professor Phillip Ainley (Ray Milland), who has a loving wife and son and an offer to teach at Yale. But his world turns upside-down when Katherine Mead (Nancy Davis), his secretary, rushes to tell him that there's been a deadly explosion at the professor's home.

His wife and child are killed. Ainley, devastated, becomes morose and turns to drink, causing Mead, a war widow, and best friend Tom Lawry (John Hodiak), her betrothed, to consider these telltale signs that the professor could be suicidal.

A popular athlete on campus has failed an exam and might not graduate, so his girlfriend Dottie (Dawn Addams) appeals to the professor to give him a second chance. A drunken Ainley tells her remaining unmarried might spare them both future heartbreak. He then crashes a car, terrifying the girl and resulting in his arrest.

Character witnesses convince the judge to place Ainley on probation. The professor permits the athlete to take a second exam, then gives him a passing grade. Ainley gets his affairs in order and goes to a hotel, where he plans to take his life. Only a last-minute intervention by Mead saves him, the widow reminding Ainley that she found a new love and new life, just as her first true love would have wanted.

Cast

Reception

According to MGM records the movie earned $556,000 in the US and Canada and $263,000 elsewhere, making a loss to the studio of $312,000.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 The Eddie Mannix Ledger, Los Angeles: Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study.


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