The Wagons Roll at Night

The Wagons Roll at Night
1941 Movie Poster
Directed by	Ray Enright
Produced by	Hal B. Wallis Harlan Thompson
Written by	Fred Niblo, Jr. Barry Trivers Francis Wallace (story)
Starring	Humphrey Bogart Sylvia Sidney Eddie Albert
Distributed by	Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc.
Release dates	April 26, 1941
Running time	84 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

The Wagons Roll at Night is a 1941 circus film directed by Ray Enright, starring Humphrey Bogart as traveling carnival owner Nick Coster, Sylvia Sidney as his girlfriend, and Eddie Albert as a newcomer who falls in love with Nick's sister. The screenplay is by Fred Niblo Jr. and Barry Trivers, and the film is based on a 1936 novel by Francis Wallace, first published as a serial in The Saturday Evening Post.

This film marks the only instance to date when the story was presented using its original circus setting, as Wallace's novel was the basis for the earlier 1937 film Kid Galahad, directed by Michael Curtiz - also by Warner Bros. and featuring Bogart in a supporting role - but using the boxing world as a backdrop. In 1962, United Artists produced a musical remake of the "boxing" version of Wallace's story under the same title, directed by Phil Karlson and starring Elvis Presley as the boxer.^[1]

Plot

A circus manager turns a young farm boy into a star lion tamer.

Cast

• Humphrey Bogart as Nick Coster
• Sylvia Sidney as Flo Lorraine
• Eddie Albert as Matt Varney
• Joan Leslie as Mary Coster
• Sig Ruman as Hoffman the Great
• Cliff Clark ... Doc
• Charley Foy ... Snapper
• Frank Wilcox ... Tex
• John Ridgely ... Arch
• Clara Blandick ... Mrs. Williams
• Aldrich Bowker ... Mr. Williams
• Jack Mower ... Bundy
• Frank Mayo ... Wally

References

1. "Kid Galahad". Time Out. Retrieved September 14, 2013.

External links

• The Wagons Roll at Night at the Internet Movie Database
• The Wagons Roll at Night at the TCM Movie Database
• The Wagons Roll at Night at AllMovie