Slightly Honorable
1939 American film
- 22 December 1939 (1939-12-22)
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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]
Plot
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 media
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.
References
- ^ a b c 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
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Films directed by Tay Garnett
- The Spieler (1928)
- Celebrity (1928)
- The Flying Fool (1929)
- Oh, Yeah! (1929)
- Her Man (1930)
- Officer O'Brien (1930)
- Bad Company (1931)
- Prestige (1932)
- One Way Passage (1932)
- Okay, America! (1932)
- Destination Unknown (1933)
- S.O.S. Iceberg (1933)
- China Seas (1935)
- Professional Soldier (1935)
- She Couldn't Take It (1935)
- Love Is News (1937)
- Slave Ship (1937)
- Stand-In (1937)
- Joy of Living (1938)
- Trade Winds (1938)
- Eternally Yours (1939)
- Slightly Honorable (1939)
- Seven Sinners (1940)
- Cheers for Miss Bishop (1941)
- My Favorite Spy (1942)
- Bataan (1943)
- The Cross of Lorraine (1943)
- Mrs. Parkington (1944)
- The Valley of Decision (1945)
- The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)
- Wild Harvest (1947)
- A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1949)
- The Fireball (1950)
- Soldiers Three (1951)
- Cause for Alarm! (1951)
- One Minute to Zero (1952)
- Main Street to Broadway (1953)
- The Black Knight (1954)
- Seven Wonders of the World (1956)
- A Terrible Beauty (1960)
- Cattle King (1963)
- The Delta Factor (1970)
- Challenge to Be Free (1975)
- Timber Tramps (1975)
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