SLIGHTLY HONORABLE (1939) Pat O'Brien, Edward Arnold & Ruth Terry | Comedy, Crime, Drama | COLORIZED
Slightly Honorable is a 1939 American mystery film directed by Tay Garnett and starring Pat O'Brien, Edward Arnold and Broderick Crawford. The film was based on the 1939 novel Send Another Coffin by Frank Gilmore Presnell, Jr. (1906–1967).
SYNOPSIS
A lawyer is framed for the murder of a young party girl and tries to clear his name.
CAST & CREW
Pat O'Brien as John Webb
Edward Arnold as Vincent Cushing
Broderick Crawford as Russ Sampson
Ruth Terry as Ann Seymour
Alan Dinehart as District Attorney Joyce
Claire Dodd as Alma Brehmer
Phyllis Brooks as Sarilla Cushing
Eve Arden as Miss Ater
Douglass Dumbrille as George Taylor
Bernard Nedell as Pete Godena
Douglas Fowley as Madder
Ernest Truex as P. Hemingway Collins
Janet Beecher as Mrs. Cushing
Evelyn Keyes as Miss Vlissingen
John Sheehan as Mike Daley
Addison Richards as Inspector Fromm
Cliff Clark as Captain Graves
Directed by Tay Garnett
Written by Ken Englund (screenplay), John Hunter Lay (screenplay), F.G. Presnell (novel "Send Another Coffin"), Robert Tallman (screenplay)
Produced by Walter Wanger, Tay Garnett
Cinematography Merritt B. Gerstad
Edited by Otho Lovering, Dorothy Spencer
Music by Werner Janssen
Production company Walter Wanger Productions
Distributed by United Artists
Release date 22 December 1939
Running time 85 minutes
Country United States
Language English
NOTES
The film recorded a loss of $107,709.
As Vestron Video never owned the complete rights to this film, alongside Sundown and The Woman of the Town, other companies such as Video Treasures and Alpha Video have been able to release home video versions of Slightly Honorable for the past decades, with the quality of the prints used varying by distributor. The first home video release was in 1980, when Time-Life Video released it on the Betamax and VHS formats, and on April 17, 2012, Mill Creek Entertainment released a digitally restored version of the film on DVD as part of their Dark Crimes: 50 Movie Set DVD box set.
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