All night long (all night)
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One of the screenwriters, the American Paul Jarrico (using the pseudonym Peter Achilles), was blacklisted during the McCarthy era and his other credits include Salt of the Earth (US, d. Once the main plot gets underway, the parallels with Shakespeare are signposted in the brightest neon - Cousin/Iago, Rex/Othello, Delia/Desdemona, Cass/Cassio, Emily/Emilia and Lou/Lodovico perform roughly similar functions, and until the unexpectedly happy ending All Night Long follows Othello relatively closely, albeit updated with contemporary props such as cigarette cases and tape recorders. The initial focus is on the party's real-life celebrity guests: Charles Mingus, Dave Brubeck, Johnny Dankworth and nearly a dozen other jazz musicians provide an on-location soundtrack that segues between background decoration and foreground showpieces, occasionally interjecting ironic commentary on the proceedings.
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Much disparaged by the Monthly Film Bulletin in 1962, from today's perspective All Night Long is an enjoyable curio: a not entirely successful but nonetheless entertaining attempt at restaging Shakespeare's Othello in the context of a fashionable London jazz party hosted by wealthy proto-yuppie Richard Attenborough, who appears to have anticipated the fashion for converting Docklands warehouses into loft apartments by a good two or three decades. At an East London warehouse jazz party, a drummer plots his revenge on the people who thwarted his ambitions by spreading rumours and lies amongst them.