IMDb plot summary: A scheming mother wishes to make a successful match between her daughter and a prince, yet another man, a commoner, may stand in the way.
Directed by Paul L. Stein. Stars Lillian Gish, Rod La Rocque, and Conrad Nagel.
One Romantic Night is a 1930 romance movie starring Lillian Gish as the Princess Alexandra, who is given two men with whom she can pursue a romantic relationship: one is her brothers' tutor, who has been in love with her for a long time, and the other is the Crown Prince, which would be a much better match but she's not at all sure that she likes him. This was Lillian Gish's first talking film and she does quite well -- I wouldn't have known that she had only done silents before this. The story of this one meanders a little bit, with characters' goals and motivations changing at a moment's notice, and that gets a little exhausting, but overall the story plays out okay. Princess Alexandra has a nice amount of autonomy for a woman in this film year, and even though I'm not fully sold on how the love story plays out, there's nothing really objectionable in it either. A thoroughly mediocre movie that I'm not going to remember at all.
How it entered my Flickchart:
🎥 One Romantic Night (1930)
📊 Ranked #2660/4014 on my Flickchart
🎯 Flickscore™: 34
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