The Night Mayor

Name: The Night Mayor
Director: Benjamin Stoloff
Genre: Drama
Released: 1932-08-18
Duration: 1 h 5 min
Rating: 7
Cast: Lee Tracy, Evalyn Knapp, Don Dillaway, Eugene Pallette, Vince Barnett

“He put the IT in politics!”

1932

1h 5m

Drama

Director: Benjamin Stoloff

Writers: Samuel Marx, Gertrude Purcell

Overview

Opportunistic film seeking to capitalize on a scandal in New York mayor Jimmy Walker's office before his name was out of the newspapers. Tracy plays a mayor who has a penchant for the night life, sports, the theater, and an actress, Knapp. When scandal rocks his administration, Tracy has his girl friend marry Dillaway, a writer friend, so that the press will leave him alone.