All in a Night's Work

Tony Ryder (Dean Martin) thinks that Katie Robbins (Shirley MacLaine) was the mistress of a recently deceased millionaire. On this fragile plot peg hangs the rest of All in a Night's Work. The millionaire died with a smile on his face, and Tony, who stands to inherit the dead man's publishing ...more

All in a Night's Work is an entertaining and highly underrated sex comedy, and one that still pushes some interesting buttons in the viewer over four decades since its release date. It's also a fascinating study in contradictions, starting with the fact that it is a comedy about sex, and sexual morals, and the double-standard to which men and women were held in the supposedly morally clear Eisenhower era (bumping up against the early Kennedy era), made during a period when it wasn't acceptable ...more