After Office Hours | |
Director: | Robert Z. Leonard |
Producer: | Robert Z. Leonard Bernard H. Hyman |
Screenplay: | Herman J. Mankiewicz |
Starring: | Clark Gable Constance Bennett |
Cinematography: | Charles Rosher |
Editing: | Tom Held |
Studio: | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
Distributor: | Loew's Inc. |
Runtime: | 72 minutes |
Country: | United States |
Language: | English |
Budget: | $366,000[1] |
Gross: | $1.2 million |
After Office Hours is a 1935 crime drama film directed by Robert Z. Leonard and starring Clark Gable and Constance Bennett. The screenplay was written by Herman Mankiewicz.
Jim Branch (Clark Gable), a newspaper editor, falls for wealthy socialite Sharon Norwood (Constance Bennett), after having fired her as a reporter, all the while trying to solve a murder mystery, involving her childhood friend Tommy Bannister. Once Jim discovers that Sharon is involved with all the participants in the murder, she becomes even more attractive to him.
According to MGM records the film earned $759,000 in the US and Canada and $522,000 elsewhere resulting in a profit of $492,000.[1]