Characters & Themes
The Gay Nighties (1933) Characters, Setting & Themes Explained
- Release, runtime and language
- 1933 · 20 mins · English
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- Directed by
- Mark Sandrich
- Starring
- John Sheehan, Charles Williams, Bobby Clark, Frank O'Connor, James Finlayson, Monte Collins
The short follows two women dashing about in nightgowns, while Paul McCullough spends most of the time dressed in a dress. Bobby Clark delivers a prolonged riff on the exclamation “Alright!”—later quoted verbatim by Lou Costello. The plot includes a political frame‑up, a nearsighted hotel house detective, and the classic upstairs motorcycle chase.
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