Get the MovieNight app
Add it to your home screen — faster & full screen
Get the MovieNight app
Add it to your home screen — faster & full screen
Warner Bros. Pictures
Not part of a collection.
Warner Bros.' Wonder Show of the Century!
Harry and Inez are a dance team at the Wonder Bar. Inez loves Harry, but he is in love with Liane, the wife of a wealthy business man. Al Wonder and the conductor/singer Tommy are in love with Inez. When Inez finds out that Harry wants to leave Paris and is going to the USA with Liane, she kills him.
JF1017xyz
Dec 4, 2021 · via TMDB
I found this movie to be a bid off-putting. The plot line of the woman crazed with love for her gigolo boyfriend while two potential paramours waited in the wings was fairly standard. However, Jolson's portrayal of Al Wonder, nightclub owner who not only covers up the murder of Inez's partner but seems impervious to the news that his driver has also been killed in an auto accident, makes his character appear psychopathic instead of compassionate. Many of today's viewers will be upset with the grand finale, which has Jolson and backup singers and dancers in blackface. This is obviously a scene that is meant to showcase Al Jolson. The number actually seems contrived and out of place in the movie, and is a bit of a distraction from the story line. In the end, Dick Powell's character wins Inez's heart, leaving Wonder to live with the knowledge that he helped a murderess get away and got nothing for his efforts. But his last line, "There's nothing more for me to do but go home" reinforces the idea that empathy or a conscience are lacking.
User reviews courtesy of TMDB.
Al Jolson
Al Wonder
Kay Francis
Liane Renaud
Dolores del Río
Inez
Ricardo Cortez
Harry
Dick Powell
Tommy
Guy Kibbee
Henry Simpson
Ruth Donnelly
Emma Simpson
Hugh Herbert
Corey Pratt
Louise Fazenda
Pansy Pratt
Hal Le Roy
Himself
Fifi D'Orsay
Mitzi
Merna Kennedy
Claire
Henry O'Neill
Richard
Robert Barrat
Hugo Von Ferring
Henry Kolker
R. H. Renaud
Gino Corrado
Waiter #2 (uncredited)
Jane Darwell
Baroness (uncredited)
Bill Elliott
Norman (uncredited)
Pauline Garon
Telephone Operator (uncredited)
George Irving
Broker (uncredited)
Bert Moorhouse
Joe (uncredited)
Dave O'Brien
Chorus Boy (uncredited)
Dennis O'Keefe
Chorus Boy (uncredited)
Émile Chautard
Pierre (uncredited)
Hobart Cavanaugh
Drunk (uncredited)
Bud Jamison
Bartender #3 (uncredited)
Marlo Dwyer
(uncredited)
Robert Graves
(uncredited)
Rosalie Roy
(uncredited)
Kathryn Sergava
(uncredited)
Victoria Vinton
(uncredited)
Renee Whitney
(uncredited)
Eddie Kane
Frank (uncredited)
Orry-Kelly
Costume Design
Busby Berkeley
Choreographer
Lloyd Bacon
Director
Last Year
Where Do We Go?
The Day of the Purple Sun: Part I
Alexandra
WHODUNNIT
In Her Silence
The Mirror
Ladies Must Love
Wilting at the Roots
Limbo
I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
On Borrowed Time
Destiny
Greed
The Public Enemy
American Satan
Blood Money
Penthouse
Smart Money
Gun Smoke
Ramprasad Ki Tehrvi
From the Ashes
Hell's Angels
It's Great to Be Alive
I'm No Angel
The Bitter Tea of General Yen
City Streets
The Premature Burial
Gemma Bovery
Zulu Dawn
The Evening Star
Inspiration
One Night at Susie's
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Goodbye, Charley
Roadside Prophets
Drowning Mona
Enter the Ninja
Black Moon
Framed
Stoned
9/11
Inside
Autopsy
Tart
My Woman
Sensation Hunters
Palooka
Vámonos
Sileotopia
Those Left Behind
Enjaulada
With My Fingers
Gotcha!
Gone Fishin'
Abbey of Thelema
Con las manos de ella
Minbera
Chrysalises
We Regret to Inform You
All My Life
I Still Believe
The Age of Adaline
Meet Joe Black
High Strung Free Dance
West Side Story
Edge of the City
You Only Live Once
Manhattan Melodrama
Plunder Road
Dishonored
The Fugitive Kind
Step Up
They Live by Night
Each Dawn I Die
The Lost Husband
Absence of Malice
The Wild One
They Won't Believe Me
Fallen Angel
Madame X
Too Late Blues
The Locket
Knock on Any Door
Mata Hari
Naked Alibi
Bad Girl
The Quiller Memorandum
Mar 31, 1934
© 2025-2026 MovieNight. All rights reserved.
Versus
Sign in to play →
Barkley Dubis' Danse Macabre
2023
So Far All Good
2025
Sign in to vote
Battle your watched movies head-to-head
Community Top Movies
Evil Dead II
1987 · 14 wins
The Dark Knight
2008 · 14 wins
Halloween
1978 · 13 wins
Final Destination
2000 · 12 wins
Halloween II
1981 · 11 wins
Trivia
Leaderboard →Playing as a guest — sign in to save your score and rank on the leaderboard.
Movie Trivia
Guess the movie from a clue — tagline, plot, cast and more. Pick from four posters.
What movie experience do you prefer?
What is your favorite movie genre?
Versus
Sign in to play →
Barkley Dubis' Danse Macabre
2023
So Far All Good
2025
Sign in to vote
Battle your watched movies head-to-head
Community Top Movies
Evil Dead II
1987 · 14 wins
The Dark Knight
2008 · 14 wins
Halloween
1978 · 13 wins
Final Destination
2000 · 12 wins
Halloween II
1981 · 11 wins
Trivia
Leaderboard →Playing as a guest — sign in to save your score and rank on the leaderboard.
Movie Trivia
Guess the movie from a clue — tagline, plot, cast and more. Pick from four posters.
What movie experience do you prefer?
What is your favorite movie genre?
We use essential cookies to run MovieNight, plus analytics (Google Analytics) and advertising (Google AdSense) cookies. By continuing to browse, you agree to this — or click No and we won't. See our Terms & Privacy Policy to learn more.