A Very Honorable Guy

A Very Honorable Guy
A Very Honorable Guy
	DVD cover
Directed by	Lloyd Bacon
Screenplay by	Earl Baldwin
Based on	A Very Honorable Guy; 1929 story in Cosmopolitan; by Damon Runyon
Produced by	Hal B. Wallis
Starring	Joe E. Brown; Alice White; Robert Barrat; Alan Dinehart; Irene Franklin; Hobart Cavanaugh
Cinematography	Ira H. Morgan
Edited by	William Holmes
Music by	Bernhard Kaun
Production; company	Warner Bros.
Distributed by	Warner Bros.
Release date	May 5, 1934;
Running time	62 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

A Very Honorable Guy is a 1934 American pre-Code comedy film directed by Lloyd Bacon, written by Earl Baldwin, and starring Joe E. Brown, Alice White, Robert Barrat, Alan Dinehart, Irene Franklin and Hobart Cavanaugh. It was released by Warner Bros. on May 5, 1934.^[1]^[2]

Plot

Well respected local good guy, Feet Samuels finds himself heavily in debt due to an uncharacteristic gambling binge. Feet decides the only way to settle the bill is by selling his body to an ambitious doctor. The doctor agrees to allow him one last month to live life to the fullest, then commit suicide.

Cast

Joe E. Brown as “Feet” Samuels
Alice White as Hortense Hathaway
Robert Barrat as Dr. Snitzer
Alan Dinehart as Joel “The Brain” Baldwin
Irene Franklin as Toodles Hathaway
Hobart Cavanaugh as Benny
Arthur Vinton as Moon O'Hara
G. Pat Collins as Red Hendrickson
Harold Huber as Joe Ponzetti
James Donlan as Mr. O'Toole
Harry Warren as Harry
Bud Jamison as Waiter (uncredited)

References

^ "A Very Honorable Guy (1934) - Overview". TCM.com. Retrieved 2015-08-12.
^ Hal Erickson (2015). "A-Very-Honorable-Guy - Trailer - Cast - Showtimes". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. Archived from the original on 2015-10-11. Retrieved 2015-08-12.

External links

A Very Honorable Guy at IMDb
A Very Honorable Guy at the TCM Movie Database
A Very Honorable Guy at AllMovie
A Very Honorable Guy at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films

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[1] "A Very Honorable Guy (1934) - Overview". TCM.com. Retrieved 2015-08-12.

[2] Hal Erickson (2015). "A-Very-Honorable-Guy - Trailer - Cast - Showtimes". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. Archived from the original on 2015-10-11. Retrieved 2015-08-12.

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