BackgroundNight After Night(1932) is known for its debut of the inimitable, wise-cracking Mae West in her first talking film (in a supporting role).Now otally inebriated, they put him blind-drunk in the driver""s seat of a Mercedes roadster convertible on a dark, winding ocean cliff road later that night, expecting him to be the victim of a fatal, drunk-driving accident on the dangerous road by having it run off the cliff.The town""s weak-willed police chief Harry Bleeker (Robert Keith) is overwhelmed by the disturbance and ineffective at stopping the escalating rowdiness ("It was an accident, I saw it").[Note: It was eclipsed by William Wyler""s award-winningThe Best Years of Our Lives.]Plot SynopsisThe film""s credits are seen in an illustrated storybook of wintry scenes as the pages turn.The other five nominations were Best Picture, Best Actor (Charles Boyer), Best Supporting Actress (Angela Lansbury, in her film debut at seventeen years old as a tarty housemaid), Best Original Screenplay (John L.