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Bupp Filmology
Week Eight
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"Half a Sinner" 1940
Sonny with Heather Angel
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MOVIE NAME: HALF A SINNER
STUDIO: ARCADIA PICTURE CORP./ UNIVERSAL
PRODUCER:JACK SKIRBALL
DIRECTOR: AL CHRISTIE
DATE: 19404
TYPE: CRIME,COMEDY-DRAMA
CAST:
HEATHER ANGEL as Anne Gladden, JOHN KING as Larry Cameron ,CONSTANCE COLLIER as Mrs. Breckenridge, WALTER CATLETT as Station Attendant, SONNY BUPP as Willy,TOM DUGAN as Red Egan, ROBERT ELLIOT as Officer Kelly, CLEM BEVENS as Snuffy, WILLIAM B. DAVIDSON as Slick
SOURCE: A F I, Catalog of Feature Films 1931-1940
STORY:By Dalton Trumbo,
Straightlaced school teacher Anne Gladden, ignores grandmother’s advise and discards her glasses, buys a new outfit and desides to relish one day of freedom, doing exactly as she pleases. Things don’t work out as she planned, however, when to avoid the unwelcome advances of a gangster, Anne jumps into a parked limousine and speeds away. Unknown to Anne, the car is stolen and the a dead body is stashed in the back seat. Along the road, Larry Cameron, the car’s owner , recognizes his stolen vehicle and hails Anne to stop. His curiosity aroused when he discovers the body , Larry pretends to have car trouble and that he, too, is a crook. This s just the beginning of their troubles, for soon the police, and the gangsters are after them. Larry switches the license plates to throw them off, with the plates of dowager Mrs. Jefferson Breckenridge, and then drives Anne to a mansion that he say’s he is going to rob. As they eat dinner in the kitchen , they are attacked by the gangsters but saved by Mrs. Breckenridge who has followed them. After Mrs. Breckenridge exposes Larry as the real owner of the car and the house, they return the car to the gangsters’ headquarters, where they are taken captive by the gang leader "Slick." Once again Mrs. Breckenridge comes to their rescue with the police, and their troubles end. Anne and Larry decide to marry.
Note:
The movie starts with Sonny, at the blackboard writing "I will try to be good", while muttering under his breath, "I will not try to be good"
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