The Night of January 16th

1941
A
1h 20m

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Ellen Drew, Robert Preston, and Alice White in The Night of January 16th (1941)

Film Noir Crime Drama Mystery Romance Thriller

The story revolves around three people; Tycoon Bjorn Faulkner, who is being called upon by his board of directors to explain a missing $20,000,000; Kit Lane, his secretary who also has a per... Read allThe story revolves around three people; Tycoon Bjorn Faulkner, who is being called upon by his board of directors to explain a missing $20,000,000; Kit Lane, his secretary who also has a personal interest; and Steve Van Ruyle, a sailor who has inherited a position on Faulkner's b... Read allThe story revolves around three people; Tycoon Bjorn Faulkner, who is being called upon by his board of directors to explain a missing $20,000,000; Kit Lane, his secretary who also has a personal interest; and Steve Van Ruyle, a sailor who has inherited a position on Faulkner's board of directors. Faulkner is (presumably) murdered, and Kit is falsely accused of the mu... Read all

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Trivia
An interesting element to the live play was that the jury was selected from the audience at each performance, and different endings were used according to how the jury voted at the end. (In Rand's reckoning, the heroine on trial technically wasn't guilty of the charge against her, but the evidence presented was evenly balanced and the verdict would be a reflection of the jury's own collective conscience.)

Quotes
Court House Elevator Operator: [Said to elevator repairman as Steve Van Ruyle]
[Robert Preston]
Court House Elevator Operator: and Flashy Blonde
[Alice White]
Court House Elevator Operator: exit the elevator] "Hello" on the fifth floor and "honey" on the first.
Court House Elevator Repairman: Good thing you didn't take them to the basement.

Connections
Referenced in Ayn Rand: A Sense of Life (1996)

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5/10

Pretty typical for the genre

Although "The Night of January 16th" was based on a play by Ayn Rand, it's pretty much typical of the murder mystery B-movies of the era...with most of the usual cliches.

The head of a big company has been apparently embezzling, as the books are short more than $20,000,000! One evening, he's apparently being attacked and his faithful secretary returns to work to help him. But she's too late...and he's apparently tossed out of his skyrise penthouse...and, oddly, the police assume she's responsible. First, she has no motive. Second, they expected this lady to overpower her boss, drag him to the ledge and then toss him over in only three minutes time?! The only person (other than her) to doubt this narrative is an odd character played by Robert Preston and they both play amateur detectives to solve the case and keep her out of prison. To do this, they make an escape from the courtroom (huh???) and travel to Cuba to wrap things up...ridiculous, of course, but no more so than the typical film in the genre!! Decent acting...otherwise not much to distinguish this one.