Night After Night

This was Raft's first starring role in films, but it was also West's first talking film and the hip-slinging, wisecracking, eye-batting blonde stole the show. Raft is an ambitious low-life with little education and a lot of cash who wants to crash society. He opens a posh nightclub and goes after the carriage trade, but he's fearful of his bad manners and gutter diction offending his high-society patrons. To correct the situation, Raft hires speech coach Skipworth, who tips him on how to speak and even what to talk about. When he spies Park Avenue beauty Cummings, Raft has plenty to say, but he learns that Cummings' once wealthy family is now on the rocks, ruined b...