Slightly Honorable

Slightly Honorable is a 1939 American film directed by Tay Garnett. The film was based on the 1939 novel Send Another Coffin by Frank Gilmore Presnell, Jr. (1906–1967).[2]

Slightly Honorable
Directed byTay Garnett
Charles Kerr (assistant)
Written byKen Englund (screenplay)
John Hunter Lay (screenplay)
F.G. Presnell (novel "Send Another Coffin")
Robert Tallman (screenplay)
Produced byWalter Wanger
Tay Garnett
StarringSee below
CinematographyMerritt B. Gerstad
Edited byOtho Lovering
Dorothy Spencer
Music byWerner Janssen
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]

Cast

Reception

The film recorded a loss of $107,709.[1]

Home video

Because Home Box Office (HBO) via Masterpiece Productions' successor-in-interest, Time-Life Films, never owned complete rights to this film, other companies such as 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. 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. 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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