All Night Long
Directed by Basil DeardenOver the course of one eventful evening, the anniversary celebration of the musical and romantic partners Aurelius Rex and Delia Lane, a jealous, ambitious drummer, Johnny Cousin, attempts to tear the interracial couple apart.
- DavidBunnyDadMarch 23, 2026A real curio from the early '60s. A sneaky modern riff on Othello penned by the blacklisted writer Paul Jarrico, the story takes place over one night in a super-elegant jazz club in a penthouse suite high over Manhattan. The film is photographed in striking black-and-white and populated with real jazz figures who act a little but mostly just jam, namely Dave Brubeck and Charles Mingus (the real actors include the great Patrick McGoohan and Richard Attenborough). This thing really moves along. Whenever the plot threatens to bog down an ad hoc band suddenly forms and starts up a number, and everyone stops to enjoy the show. A blistering bongo solo from Brit Barry Morgan, playing a South American ace named Paco O'Toole, is a toe-tapping highlight. The whole enterprise is quite a novelty. I'm not the biggest fan of jazz music, but this thing really swings, daddy-O. It's also one of the rare films from 1962 that features two characters smoking a joint!
All Night Long Trivia
All Night Long was released on June 15, 1962.
All Night Long was directed by Basil Dearden.
All Night Long has a runtime of 1h 31m.
All Night Long was produced by Michael Relph.
Over the course of one eventful evening, the anniversary celebration of the musical and romantic partners Aurelius Rex and Delia Lane, a jealous, ambitious drummer, Johnny Cousin, attempts to tear the interracial couple apart.
The key characters in All Night Long are Johnny Cousin (Patrick McGoohan), Cass Michaels (Keith Michell), Emily (Betsy Blair).
All Night Long is rated Not Rated.
All Night Long is a Drama, Music film.
All Night Long has an audience rating of 7.1 out of 10.