One Hysterical Night

1929 film

  • October 6, 1929 (1929-10-06)
Running time
75 minutesCountryUnited StatesLanguageEnglish

One Hysterical Night is a 1929 American pre-Code comedy film directed by William James Craft and starring Reginald Denny, Nora Lane, Walter Brennan and Peter Gawthorne.[1]

Plot summary

A wealthy man dresses up as Napoleon for a fancy dress ball, but is instead detained in a lunatic asylum where they suspect him of having delusions of grandeur.[2]

Cast

  • Reginald Denny as William 'Napoleon' Judd
  • Nora Lane as Nurse Josephine
  • E. J. Ratcliffe as Wellington
  • Fritz Feld as Paganini
  • Slim Summerville as Robin Hood
  • Joyzelle Joyner as Salome
  • Jules Cowles as William Tell
  • Walter Brennan as Paul Revere
  • Henry Otto as Doctor Hayden
  • Margaret Campbell as Mrs Bixby
  • Peter Gawthorne as Mr Bixby
  • Rolfe Sedan as Arthur Bixby

See also

  • List of early sound feature films (1926–1929)

References

  1. ^ The AFI Catalog of Feature Films: One Hysterical Night
  2. ^ BFI Database entry

External links

  • One Hysterical Night at IMDb Edit this at Wikidata
  • synopsis at AllMovie
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