Honours Easy Explained

Honours Easy
Director:Herbert Brenon
Producer:Walter C. Mycroft
Based On:play Honours Easy by Roland Pertwee
Cinematography:Ronald Neame
Studio:British International Pictures
Distributor:Wardour Films (UK)
Runtime:62 minutes
Country:England
Language:English

Honours Easy is a 1935 British drama film directed by Herbert Brenon and starring Greta Nissen, Patric Knowles and Margaret Lockwood. It follows a man who tries to take revenge on a rival for a slight seventeen years before by framing his son for theft.[1] It was based on the play Honours Easy by Roland Pertwee.[2]

It was an early role for Margaret Lockwood.

Plot

Unhinged art dealer William Barton (Ivan Samson) seeks revenge on a man who ruined his career years ago. He does so by attempting to frame the man's son for the theft of $2,500 from the safe in his gallery. However the son has an alibi in Barton's wife, with whom he is having an affair.

Cast

References

  1. https://web.archive.org/web/20090113221704/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/36828 BFI.org
  2. Book: Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. 1 January 1999. Walter de Gruyter. 9783110951943. Google Books.

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