Britain's All Night Long was the first film version of Othello in which Othello is actually played by a black actor and not a white actor in black-face. (Hollywood would wait another five years, until Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, to feature a black and white couple on the screen.) This curious mood piece was a delightful rediscovery among the films presented by William K. Everson in 1988, and worth repeating for those who missed it. Its drama is an East End update of Othello, broken by cool jazz interludes featuring appearances by Dave Brubeck, Charles Mingus, Tubby Hayes, Johnny Dankforth and others. Patrick McGoohan, as the drummer Johnny Cousin, plays Iago to Paul Harris' Othello, a maestro by the name of Aurelius Rex, during an all-night jazz party at the luxurious, converted East End warehouse of Richard Attenborough. The drummer plants the seeds of jealousy in the black musician's mind, persuading him that his wife Delia is having an affair with sax player Cass... But truly, the music's the thing-remarkable in performances of tunes by, among others, Mingus, Hayes, Ellington, and music director Philip Green; and notable also for its absence as background to the drama, in which silences build effectively.