NIGHT WORK (1930) Eddie Quillan, Sally Starr & Frances Upton | Comedy, Romance | B&W

Night Work is a 1930 American comedy film starring Eddie Quillan,[1] Sally Star, and Frances Upton. The film was directed by Russell Mack.

SYNOPSIS
Willie Musher is an assistant window dresser for a department store who is the unlucky chump who is fired each time a disgruntled customer complains to the manager, Mr. Reisman. Willie is given ten dollars by the husband of one of the complainers as a tip for lying so well, and he leaves the store to deposit the money in his bank account.

As assistant window-dresser, Willie is the lowest man on the totem pole at a department store. To add insult to injury, he is also the store's designated "Fired Man": when a disgruntled customer demands that somebody-must-be-fired, Willie is summoned and summarily fired, only to be rehired when the now-satisfied customer has departed. Willie inadvertently adopts a 4-year-old orphan at a cost of $10-a-week, and things go from bad to worse since Willie doesn't make $10-a-wee. But with the help of beautiful young nurse Mary, Willie manages to turn some corners and improve his lot in life--with some skids along the way.

CAST & CREW
Eddie Quillan as Willie
Sally Star as Mary
Frances Upton as Aggie
Tom Keene as Harvey Vanderman (as George Duryea)
Robert McWade as Phil Reisman
Robert Edeson
John T. Murray as Calloway
Addie McPhail as Trixie
Georgia Caine as Mrs. Ten Eyck
Douglas Scott as Oscar, the Orphan

Directed by Russell Mack
Screenplay by Walter DeLeon
Produced by E.B. Derr
Cinematography John J. Mescall
Edited by Joseph Kane
Music by Josiah Zuro
Production company Pathé
Release date: August 3, 1930 (USA)
Running time: 93 Minutes
Country: United States
Language: English