All Through the Night Blu-ray review
Aug 27, 2026- Permalink
Vincent Sherman’s 1942 comedy-crime-spy thriller All Through the Night stars Humphrey Bogart, Conrad Veidt and Kaaren Verne. Bogart is Alfred “Gloves” Donahue, a big time gambler and former gangster. When his favourite baker doesn’t deliver the cheesecake he loves, he heads over to find him dead. How is a nightclub singer involved and what is her connection to a Nazi spy ring? Gloves and his ragtag crew will need to get to the bottom of this. The movie also stars a collection of Warner contract players including Peter Lorre, Frank McHugh, Jackie Gleason, Phil Silvers, Barton MacLane, and William Demarest. Warner Archive has now released a Blu-ray of the film and thanks to them and Allied Vaughn I had a chance to take a look. The WB likes disclaimers, so here goes: Though Warner Brothers provided me with a copy of this release to review, the thoughts and opinions below are mine.
The 1080p AVC encoded digital transfer is presented in a 1.37:1 aspect ratio. The transfer is done from a 4K scan of the original camera negative and at this point I may as well put “Warner Archive has done a great job with the restoration” as a keyboard shortcut to save time. Excellent detail in clothes, sets, and facial features. There’s a nice wide greyscale and deep blacks. The film grain is fine and natural and there’s nary a sign of any print damage.
On the the audio side of things, there’s an English DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 mono soundtrack. Subtitles are available for English SDH. Dialogue is crystal clear and both Adolph Deutsch’s score and the sound effects are blended nicely in the mix. No age-related hiss, pops or clicks stood out to me.
The All Through the Night Blu-ray does not come with a digital code. We get an audio commentary by director Vincent Sherman and Bogart biographer Eric Lax. There’s a featurette on the character actors that populated this film and the WB lot. We also get Richard L. Bare’s first Joe McDoakes comedy short, “So You Want To Give Up Smoking”, which stars George O’Hanlon as the everyman who gets tossed in a variety of situations. To round out the extras, we get a Merrie Melodies cartoon short “Lights Fantastic”, a newsreel about a torpedoed tanker, and the theatrical trailer.
All Through the Night gives us Bogart in a comedy, surrounded by an excellent supporting cast and present with an excellent audio and video restoration. Recommended.