After Office Hours is a 1935 crime drama film directed by Robert Z. Leonard and starring Clark Gable and Constance Bennett. The screenplay was written by Herman Mankiewicz.
| After Office Hours | |
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| Directed by | Robert Z. Leonard |
| Written by | Laurence Stallings Dale Van Every |
| Screenplay by | Herman J. Mankiewicz |
| Produced by | Robert Z. Leonard Bernard H. Hyman |
| Starring | Clark Gable Constance Bennett |
| Cinematography | Charles Rosher |
| Edited by | Tom Held |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | Loew's Inc.[1] |
Release date |
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Running time | 72 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $366,000[2] |
| Box office | $1.2 million[2] |
Plot
editJim Branch (Clark Gable), a newspaper editor, falls for wealthy socialite Sharon Norwood (Constance Bennett), after having fired her as a reporter, all the while trying to solve a murder mystery, involving her childhood friend Tommy Bannister. Once Jim discovers that Sharon is involved with all the participants in the murder, she becomes even more attractive to him.
Cast
edit- Constance Bennett as Sharon Norwood
- Clark Gable as James "Jim" Branch
- Stuart Erwin as Hank Parr
- Billie Burke as Mrs. Norwood
- Harvey Stephens as Tommy Bannister
- Katharine Alexander as Julia Patterson
- Hale Hamilton as Henry King Patterson
- Henry Travers as Cap
- Henry Armetta as Italian diner owner
- Charles Richman as Jordan
- Herbert Bunston as Barlow, Norwood's butler
- Margaret Dumont as Mrs. Murchison
- William Demarest as police detective
- Rita La Roy as Branch's Society Girlfriend
Box office
editAccording to MGM records the film earned $759,000 in the US and Canada and $522,000 elsewhere resulting in a profit of $492,000.[2]
References
edit- ^ After Office Hours at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films
- ^ a b c The Eddie Mannix Ledger, Los Angeles: Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study.
External links
editWikimedia Commons has media related to After Office Hours (1935 film).
- After Office Hours at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films
- After Office Hours at IMDb
- ‹The template AllMovie title is being considered for deletion.› After Office Hours at AllMovie
- After Office Hours at the TCM Movie Database
