History Is Made at Night
The obsessive and jealous shipowner Bruce Vail does not accept the divorce his wife Irene Vail is seeking to make final, so he hires his chauffeur Michael Browsky to forge adultery with Irene in Paris to make the provisional decree she has achieved there null. However, she is rescued by the headwaiter Paul Dumond, who punches Michael and locks Bruce and his private eyes in a closet.
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The obsessive and jealous shipowner Bruce Vail does not accept the divorce his wife Irene Vail is seeking to make final, so he hires his chauffeur Michael Browsky to forge adultery with Irene in Paris to make the provisional decree she has achieved there null. However, she is rescued by the headwaiter Paul Dumond, who punches Michael and locks Bruce and his private eyes in a closet.
The pair then escapes and spends a wonderful night together in the restaurant Chateau Bleu, where Paul and his best friend Chef Cesare work, and fall in love with eachother. Meanwhile, Bruce murders Michael and blackmails Irene, blaming Paul and forcing her to travel with him to New York. But Paul does not give up on Irene, and follows her to New York with Cesare trying to become reunited with his love.
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