All Night Long (1961)

Cinematic Time Capsule 1962 Marathon - Film #28 Life's funny though, isn't it, I mean, you kick one habit and you get another. Have you ever been watching a Shakespearean production and found yourself wishing it contained a whole lot more 1960’s jazz? Well, great…

📀 Cammmalot 📀

Casually treated as a joke by friends who consider themselves more talented and relevant than he, drummer Johnny Cousin (aka Iago, played by Patrick McGoohan) is determined to create his own big break by shattering a marriage. In his mind, after Rex (aka Othello, played by…

sakana1

Flawed, but still very exciting on a lot of levels. An interracial couple in 1962. I’m no jazz guy, but I dug this music. Keith Mitchell looking like Charles Napier’s little brother. Directed well, I loved the camera movement. A pretty groovy adaptation of Othello that…

SkaneNoise

wish i could walk into my room and casually say hi to charles mingus, just sitting there practising

aleph beth null

Would make a tasty “cookie full of arsenic” pairing with SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS.

Brian Saur

Man that bard can swing! If you dig on Jazz, Shakespeare and the swinging 60s have I got a flick for you. Not only does All Night Long feature some true jazz luminaries (Mingus and Brubeck!) but it's a neat little take on Othello set over a single evening at a warehouse…

C.A. DeStefanis

February 2023: Theme of the Month - Brush Up Your Shakespeare: Offbeat Adaptations of the Bard Basil Dearden's contemporary take on Othello with all the characters as jazz musicians during an all-night jam session in London. I found it interesting more than really loved…

Stephen M

Absolutely adored this one, a cool and stylish gem from Basil Dearden. The story is tight and told in a single evening during a party, and there is a fantastic contrast of free and easy jazz music with the sinister scheming of a drummer (Patrick McGoohan) who senses his…

AntoniusBlock7

Evidence, perhaps, that Iago is the Captain Jack Sparrow of Shakespeare characters; a great supporting part who puts the whole film out of whack when you make him too prominent. Othello, in the end, should feel like the story of Othello.

Graham Williamson