Dishonour Bright

1936 British film

Hermann Fellner
Max Schach

Starring

Tom Walls
Eugene Pallette
Betty Stockfeld
Diana Churchill

CinematographyPhilip TannuraEdited byWalter StokvisMusic by

Peter Mendoza
Boyd Neel

Production
company

Cecil Films

Distributed byGeneral Film Distributors

Release date

22 September 1936 (1936-09-22)

Running time

83 minutesCountryUnited KingdomLanguageEnglish

Dishonour Bright is a 1936 British comedy film directed by and starring Tom Walls. It also featured Eugene Pallette, Betty Stockfeld and Diana Churchill and was based on a story by Ben Travers. It was made at Denham Studios.^[1] The film's art direction was by Thomas N. Morahan.

Plot

Stephen Champion is cited as the co-respondent in a divorce case, but is cheerfully unashamed when he appears in court.^[2] During the case he strikes up a flirtatious relationship with Stella Crane, the wife of one of the lawyers. Nonetheless he marries his lover when her divorce comes through. While on his European honeymoon, he comes to Stella's assistance when she is nearly trapped by a cad and his blackmailing associate. Yet it takes some time to convince both his own wife and her husband that his conduct has been entirely honourable.

Cast

Tom Walls as Stephen Champion
Eugene Pallette as Busby
Betty Stockfeld as Stella Crane
Diana Churchill as Ivy Lamb
Cecil Parker as Vincent Crane
Arthur Wontner as Judge
George Sanders as Lisle
Henry Oscar as Blenkinsop
Hubert Harben as Lamb
Mabel Terry-Lewis as Lady Melbury
Basil Radford as Henry Crane
Charlotte Leigh as Miss Tapp
Michael Morel as Louis
Dennis Val Norton as Commissionaire
Jeni Le Gon as Cabaret Dancer

Critical reception

Writing in 1936, Variety described the film as a "bedroom comedy of a quality of which Hollywood would not be ashamed. With stellar values it would have been a pushover. Even in its existing shape it is a highly titillating piece of merchandise, expertly produced and neatly directed, that will tickle the more sophisticated audience on both sides of the Atlantic".^[3]

References

^ Wood p.89
^ "Dishonour Bright (1936) | BFI". Ftvdb.bfi.org.uk. Archived from the original on 14 January 2009. Retrieved 4 August 2014.
^ https://www.nyu.edu/projects/wke/notes/newschool/imagefiles/ns_930312.pdf ^{[bare URL PDF]}