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..

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.

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.

Slightly Honorable

Plot

Cast

Reception

Home media