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Slightly Honorable (1939)

Slightly Honorable poster
Directed by
Tay Garnett
Genre
crime film, mystery film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 25m
Rated
NR
Rating
5.1 of 10 from 10 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A lawyer gets mixed up in a murder case that reveals ugly secrets. He works to clear his name and find the real killer.

noir-tingedpacycynicallivelysuspensefulsharp-tonguedinvolving

What happens

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). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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