Manslaughter (1930 film)
Appearance
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Directed by | George Abbott |
Written by | George Abbott (adaptation) Alice Duer Miller (novel) |
Starring | Claudette Colbert Fredric March |
Cinematography | Archie Stout |
Edited by | Otho Lovering |
Music by | Karl Hajos |
Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
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Running time | 85 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Manslaughter is a 1930 American pre-Code drama film directed by George Abbott, and starring Claudette Colbert and Fredric March. An original print of the film is saved in the UCLA Film and Television Archive.
This film is a sound remake of Cecil B. DeMille's 1922 silent classic Manslaughter. Paramount also released a French-language version of this 1930 film as The Indictment, directed by Dimitri Buchowetzki.
Plot summary
A wealthy woman runs over and kills a man in an automobile accident.
Cast
- Claudette Colbert as Lydia Thorne
- Fredric March as Dan O'Bannon
- Emma Dunn as Miss Bennett
- Natalie Moorhead as Eleanor Bellington
- Richard Tucker as J.P. Albee
- Hilda Vaughn as Louise Evans
- G. Pat Collins as John Drummond
- Steve Pendleton as Bobby
- Stanley Fields as Peters
- Arnold Lucy as Piers
- Ivan F. Simpson as Morson
- George Chandler as Roadside Observer
External links
- Manslaughter at the TCM Movie Database
- Manslaughter at IMDb
- Manslaughter at AllMovie
Categories:
- 1930 films
- American films
- English-language films
- American black-and-white films
- Paramount Pictures films
- Films based on American novels
- Films directed by George Abbott
- 1930s drama films
- American drama films
- Multilingual films
- Films made before the MPAA Production Code
- American film remakes
- Sound film remakes of silent films
- 1930s drama film stubs