All in a Night's Work (film)

All in a Night's Work
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Directed by	Joseph Anthony
Produced by	Hal Wallis
Screenplay by	Edmund Beloin Maurice Richlin Sidney Sheldon
Story by	Owen Elford (play) Margit Veszi
Starring	Dean Martin Shirley MacLaine Cliff Robertson Charles Ruggles
Music by	André Previn
Cinematography	Joseph LaShelle
Edited by	Howard A. Smith
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures
Release date	1961 (1961)
Running time	94 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

All in a Night's Work is a 1961 romantic screwball comedy starring Dean Martin and Shirley MacLaine, and directed by Joseph Anthony.

Tony Ryder's uncle, the wealthy owner of a newspaper, has just died. The young playboy Tony inherits the paper but is left with a board of directors that thinks he's unsuited for the task, plus a hotel detective who thinks Tony should know about a girl who was seen running away from his uncle's Palm Beach hotel room, wearing nothing but a Turkish towel and an earring, on the night of his death.

Tony discovers that the young lady in question, Katie Robbins, is employed in his own research department. The board decrees that he must send in the detective to watch her and head off any attempts at blackmail. But the more time Tony spends trying to get Katie to open up about what her relationship to his uncle was, the less he cares. Complications ensue in the form of Ms. Robbins's fiancé—he's a strait-laced veterinarian—and the board's insistence that Katie be silenced at all costs.