History Film / NightMustFall

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* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: The film manages to say without actually saying so that Danny has knocked up Dora, Mrs. Bramson's maid.

Olivia (Creator/RosalindRussell) is the beleaguered niece and secretary for her aunt, Mrs. Bramson ([[Creator/MayWhitty Dame Mae Witty]]), who’s an exacting and grumpy old woman. One day the old lady takes a fancy to page boy, Danny (Creator/RobertMontgomery), who’s a charming, common fellow. Olivia has a bad feeling about him and suspects him of being the murderer of a local woman who has gone missing. But Olivia finds herself intrigued by the romanticism of such excitement and doesn’t take herself out of danger even when every passing day makes Danny more suspicious.

Olivia (Creator/RosalindRussell) is the beleaguered niece and secretary for her aunt, Mrs. Bramson (Dame [[Creator/MayWhitty Mae Witty]]), who’s an exacting and grumpy old woman. One day the old lady takes a fancy to page boy, Danny (Creator/RobertMontgomery), who’s a charming, common fellow. Olivia has a bad feeling about him and suspects him of being the murderer of a local woman who has gone missing. But Olivia finds herself intrigued by the romanticism of such excitement and doesn’t take herself out of danger even when every passing day makes Danny more suspicious.

Olivia (Creator/RosalindRussell) is the beleaguered niece and secretary for her aunt, Mrs. Bramson (Dame [[[Creator/MayWhitty Mae Witty]]), who’s an exacting and grumpy old woman. One day the old lady takes a fancy to page boy, Danny (Creator/RobertMontgomery), who’s a charming, common fellow. Olivia has a bad feeling about him and suspects him of being the murderer of a local woman who has gone missing. But Olivia finds herself intrigued by the romanticism of such excitement and doesn’t take herself out of danger even when every passing day makes Danny more suspicious.

Olivia (Creator/RosalindRussell) is the beleaguered niece and secretary for her aunt, Mrs. Bramson (Dame Mae Witty), who’s an exacting and grumpy old woman. One day the old lady takes a fancy to page boy, Danny (Creator/RobertMontgomery), who’s a charming, common fellow. Olivia has a bad feeling about him and suspects him of being the murderer of a local woman who has gone missing. But Olivia finds herself intrigued by the romanticism of such excitement and doesn’t take herself out of danger even when every passing day makes Danny more suspicious.

* TheGlassesGottaGo: Olivia takes off her glasses, lets her hair down, and looks at herself in the mirror as she's feeling the first blushes of passion for Danny. Naturally he catches her.

* AmbiguouslyEvil: Danny: We aren’t sure if he genuinely enjoys helping Mrs. Bramson or is only doing it to steal her money.

* DarkSecret: Danny did [[spoiler: murder the missing woman]].

* KilledToUpholdTheMasquerade: Only just averted. Olivia finds out that [[spoiler: Danny really was the killer]], and he's about to kill her when she’s saved just in time.
* NiceGuy: Justin, Mrs. Bramson’s lawyer, and Olivia’s friend who wants to be more than friends. Olivia doesn’t want to be with him for his boring, regular qualities, but eventually she realizes [[spoiler: that being into a psychopath murderer is not exciting or better, it’s wrong.]]

* InVinoVeritas: Olivia tries to invoke this trope when Danny has had too much whisky, but he’s GenreSavvy and won’t admit to the crime.

* ObfuscatingDisability: Mrs. Bramson. It’s revealed that she can walk perfectly. It's not for nefarious reasons; however, she pretends to be unable to walk because she likes being [[DisabilityAsAnExcuseForJerkassery able to boss people around when she’s in her chair]].

* ObfuscatingDisability: Mrs. Bramson. It’s revealed that she can walk perfectly. It's not for nefarious reasons, however: she pretends to be unable to walk because she likes being [[DisabilityAsAnExcuseForJerkassery able to boss people around when she’s in her chair]].

* ObfuscatingDisability: Mrs. Bramson. It’s revealed that she can walk perfectly. It's not for nefarious reasons, however: she pretends to be unable to walk, but she likes being [[DisabilityAsAnExcuseForJerkassery able to boss people around when she’s in her chair]].

* FauxAffablyEvil: Danny. He puts on a friendly dumbass façade to get what he wants.

Olivia (Creator/RosalindRussell) is the beleaguered niece and secretary for her aunt, Mrs. Bramson (Dame Mae Witty), who’s an exacting and grumpy old woman. One day the old lady takes a fancy to page boy, Danny (Creator/RobertMontgomery), who’s a charming, common fellow. Olivia has a bad feeling about him and suspects him of being the murderer of a local woman who has gone missing. But Olivia finds herself intrigued by the romanticism of such excitement and doesn’t take herself out of danger even when every passing day makes Danny more and more suspicious.

* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: PlayedStraight, but {{Subverted}} in the end. Although contrary to her morals, Olivia is into Danny even though he’s probably a murderer. This stems from boredom in this small village to part loneliness. But in the end, she realizes that she was romanticizing a very charming criminal and was very wrong in doing so.

* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: PlayedStraight, but Subverted in the end. Although contrary to her morals, Olivia is into Danny even though she knows that he’s probably a murderer. This stems from part boredom in this small village to part loneliness. But in the end, she realizes that she was romanticizing a very charming criminal and was very wrong in doing so.

* ObfuscatingDisability: Mrs. Bramson. It’s revealed that she can walk perfectly and its not for nefarious reasons that she pretends to be unable to walk, but she likes being [[DisabilityAsAnExcuseForJerkassery able to boss people around when she’s in her chair]].

* KilledToUpholdTheMasquerade: Only just averted. Olivia finds out that [[spoiler: Danny really was the killer]], but she’s saved just in time.

* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: PlayedStraight, but Subverted in the end. Although contrary to her morals, Olivia is into Danny even though she knows that he’s probably a murderer. This stems from part boredom in this small village to part loneliness on her part. But in the end, she realizes that she was romanticizing a very charming criminal, and she was very wrong in doing so.

* ObfuscatingDisability: Mrs. Bramson. It’s revealed that she can walk perfectly and its not for nefarious reasons that she pretends to be unable to walk, but she likes being [[DiasabilityAsAnExcuseForJerkassery able to boss people around when she’s in her chair]].

Olivia (Creator/RosalindRussell) is the beleaguered niece and secretary for her aunt, Mrs. Bramson (Dame Mae Witty), who’s an exacting and grumpy old woman. One day the old lady takes a fancy to page boy, Danny (Creator/RobertMontogomery), who’s a charming, common fellow. Olivia has a bad feeling about him and suspects him of being the murderer of a local woman who has gone missing. But Olivia finds herself intrigued by the romanticism of such excitement and doesn’t take herself out of danger even when every passing day makes Danny more and more suspicious.

* AmbigouslyEvil: Danny: We aren’t sure if he genuinely enjoys helping Mrs. Bramson or is only doing it to steal her money.

* HideTheEvidence: Danny has a strange, locked basket. Once Olivia learns that the murder victim’s head is missing, she becomes more certain that Danny [[Squick is hiding it in that basket]]. But when the police come, she covers up for him and says that it’s where she keeps her letters. Danny then proceeds to get rid of this incriminating evidence.

* ObfuscatingDisability: Mrs. Bramson. It’s revealed that she can walk perfectly and its not for nefarious reasons that she pretends to be unable to walk, but she likes being [[DiasabilityAsAnExcuseForJerassery able to boss people around when she’s in her chair]].