After Office Hours
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 | $1,281,000[2] |
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.
Plot[]
Jim Branch (Clark Gable), a newspaper editor, falls for wealthy socialite Sharon Norwood (Constance Bennett), after having fired her as a reporter, all while trying to solve a murder mystery.
Cast[]
- 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
Box office[]
According 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[]
- ^ After Office Hours at the American Film Institute Catalog
- ^ a b c The Eddie Mannix Ledger, Los Angeles: Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study.
External links[]
Wikimedia Commons has media related to After Office Hours (1935 film). |
- After Office Hours at the American Film Institute Catalog
- After Office Hours at IMDb
- After Office Hours at AllMovie
- After Office Hours at the TCM Movie Database
Categories:
- 1935 films
- English-language films
- 1935 crime drama films
- American black-and-white films
- American crime drama films
- American films
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer films
- Films directed by Robert Z. Leonard
- Films about journalists
- Films with screenplays by Herman J. Mankiewicz
- 1930s crime drama film stubs