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]

Slightly Honorable
Poster
Directed by	Tay Garnett Charles Kerr (assistant)
Written by	Ken Englund (screenplay) John Hunter Lay (screenplay) Robert Tallman (screenplay)
Based on	Send Another Coffin by F.G. Presnell
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	Walter Wanger Productions
Distributed by	United Artists
Release date	22 December 1939 (1939-12-22)
Running time	85 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$434,874[1]
Box office	$386,116[1]

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.