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Honours Easy

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Honours Easy
Directed byHerbert Brenon
Written byRoland Pertwee
Based onplay Honours Easy by Roland Pertwee
Produced byWalter C. Mycroft
Starring
CinematographyRonald Neame
Production
company
Distributed byWardour Films (UK)
Release dates
  • 31 July 1935 (1935-07-31) (London, England)
Running time
62 minutes
CountryEngland
LanguageEnglish

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

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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

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References

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  1. ^ BFI.org
  2. ^ Goble, Alan (1 January 1999). The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter. ISBN 9783110951943 – via Google Books.
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