Slightly Honorable

Slightly Honorable
Poster
Directed byTay Garnett
Charles Kerr (assistant)
Written byKen Englund (screenplay)
John Hunter Lay (screenplay)
Robert Tallman (screenplay)
Based onSend Another Coffin
by F.G. Presnell
Produced byWalter Wanger
Tay Garnett
StarringPat O'Brien
Edward Arnold
Broderick Crawford
CinematographyMerritt B. Gerstad
Edited byOtho Lovering
Dorothy Spencer
Music byWerner Janssen
Production
company
Distributed byUnited Artists
Release date
  • 22 December 1939 (1939-12-22)
Running time
85 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$434,874[1]
Box office$386,116[1]

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

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

  1. ^ a b c Matthew Bernstein, Walter Wagner: Hollywood Independent, Minnesota Press, 2000 p440
  2. ^ 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
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