Without Honor (1949 film)
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| Directed by | Irving Pichel |
| Screenplay by | James Poe |
| Produced by | Raymond Hakim Robert Hakim |
| Starring | Bruce Bennett Laraine Day Dane Clark Agnes Moorehead Franchot Tone |
| Cinematography | Lionel Lindon |
| Edited by | Gregg C. Tallas |
| Music by | Max Steiner |
Production company | Strand Productions |
| Distributed by | United Artists |
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Running time | 69 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Without Honor is a 1949 film noir directed by Irving Pichel and starring Bruce Bennett, Laraine Day, Dane Clark, Agnes Moorehead, and Franchot Tone.[1]
Plot
A housewife (Day) is confronted during her daily chores by her married lover (Tone). The man, after a long affair, tells the woman that he has to break off their relationship. The woman threatens suicide, but when she picks up a shish kabob skewer, the two struggle and the man is stabbed in the chest and collapses. The housewife hides the body in the house. Before she can leave, her brother-in-law (Clark) arrives and tells the woman that he knows about the affair and that he has invited her husband, her lover and his wife to her house that evening so that he can tell them about the affair. The woman, in a panic worrying that they will find out about the killing, attempts to flee but cannot get away from her vengeful brother-in-law.
Cast
- Bruce Bennett as Fred Bandle
- Dane Clark as Bill Bandle
- Agnes Moorehead as Katherine Williams
- Laraine Day as Jane Bandle
- Franchot Tone as Dennis Williams
Reception
Arthur Lions notes in Death on the Cheap: The Lost B Movies of Film Noir, "A top-notch cast is wasted in a total clunker. The film takes the award, however, for the movie with the shortest performance by a top-billed star. Leading man Tone, after his brief initial appearance, spends most of the picture as the "corpse" in the laundry room."[2]
The film was entered into the 1949 Cannes Film Festival.[3]
References
- ^ Without Honor at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films.
- ^ Lyons, Arthur (2000). Death on the Cheap: The Lost B Movies of Film Noir!. Da Capo Press. ISBN 0-306-80996-6.
- ^ "Festival de Cannes: Without Honor". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved August 19, 2013.