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Slightly Honorable is a american film of genre Comedy directed by Tay Garnett released in USA on 22 december 1939 with Pat O'Brien
Slightly Honorable (1939)
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Add to a movie listSlightly Honorable is a 1939 American film directed by Tay Garnett. The film was based on the 1939 novel Send Another Coffin by F.G. Presnell.
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John Webb, avocat, est accusé du meurtre d'Anne Seymour, une chanteuse, qu'il a rencontré dans une boîte de nuit…Actors
Pat O'Brien
(John Webb)
Edward Arnold
(Vincent Cushing)
Broderick Crawford
(Russel Sampson)
Ruth Terry
(Anne Seymour)
Alan Dinehart, Sr.
(District Attorney George Joyce)
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