Review of Night Court

This film had a very poor script--filled with clichés, ridiculous story elements and was way too predictable to be enjoyed. While I am a huge fan of Hollywood films of the 1930s, I really hated this film because of the script and because the film had some excellent actors who were totally wasted. Walter Huston played a crooked judge--in a rather one-dimensional way. It was really hard to see the brilliance of this actor in this turgid film--even though in DODSWORTH and TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE he gave truly amazing performances. Lewis Stone, an excellent character actor, was also given a pretty thankless role. And the part of the film where the innocent woman is "railroaded" and sent to prison is just ridiculous and nonsensical. The bottom line is that it really looks like MGM put little, if any, effort in making this very standard and very silly film full of plot problems. Not everything old is good.