After Office Hours

1935 film by Robert Zigler Leonard
  • February 22, 1935 (1935-02-22)
Running time
72 minutesCountryUnited StatesLanguageEnglishBudget$366,000[2]Box office$1.2 million[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 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

  • 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

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

  1. ^ After Office Hours at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films
  2. ^ a b c The Eddie Mannix Ledger, Los Angeles: Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study.

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