So Ends Our Night is a 1941 American drama film directed by John Cromwell and starring Fredric March, Margaret Sullavan and Frances Dee.

The screenplay was adapted by Talbot Jennings from the novel Flotsam by German exile Erich Maria Remarque, who rose to international fame for his first novel, All Quiet on the Western Front.

Steiner and Kern share a jail cell with other prisoners, including the Chicken, the Pole and a professional gambler/pickpocket who is proud of his "full rights of citizenship."

After a Swiss Nazi spy has Ludwig arrested, the local gendarme allows him to escape and a friendly doctor visits ailing Ruth in their hideout and orders her to the hospital.

He says goodbye at her deathbed, then grabs the leader of the Gestapo group, Brenner and leaps to his death, rather than informing on his friends.

Glenn Ford's performance earned high honors and afforded him subsequent film offers and great popularity.

[4] President Franklin D. Roosevelt attended a special screening of the film at the White House on January 30 and invited the cast to his annual birthday ball that night.

And although John Cromwell has drawn much pathos and affecting tenderness from individual scenes, his direction of the picture as a whole has been too slow, too solemn and much too tedious.

"[5] Critic Philip K. Scheuer of the Los Angeles Times called So Ends Our Night "the most challenging of recent American releases" and wrote: "[S]ome of the scenes are gems.