Slightly Honorable
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).[2]
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| Directed by | Tay Garnett Charles Kerr (assistant) |
| 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 |
| Starring | Pat O'Brien Edward Arnold Broderick Crawford |
| Cinematography | Merritt B. Gerstad |
| Edited by | Otho Lovering Dorothy Spencer |
| Music by | Werner Janssen |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | United Artists |
Release date |
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Running time | 85 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $434,874[1] |
| Box office | $386,116[1] |
Cast
- 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
Reception
The film recorded a loss of $107,709.[1]
Home video
Slightly Honorable is one of three United Artists feature films reissued by Masterpiece Productions that were in the syndication package of Time-Life Films that Vestron Video and HBO Video, the last two rights holders of Time-Life's film and television library, do not have the video distribution rights to, the others being 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 the film 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.
References
- Matthew Bernstein, Walter Wagner: Hollywood Independent, Minnesota Press, 2000 p440
- Frank Gilmore Presnell, Jr. (24 June 1906 (Torreon, Coahuila, Mexico) – 28 February 1967 (Los Angeles, California, USA)).
- Obituary, Chillicothe Gazette (Chillicothe, Ohio, USA), March 1, 1967, p. 2.
- California Death Index, 1940-1997
External links
- Slightly Honorable at IMDb
- Slightly Honorable is available for free viewing and download at the Internet Archive