---
title: 'Slightly Honorable (1939)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Tay Garnett'
released: '1939-01-01'
runtime_minutes: 85
genres:
  - 'Crime'
  - 'Mystery'
countries:
  - 'United States'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/slightly-honorable-1939'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0033062/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Slightly Honorable (1939)

1939 · 85 min · Crime, Mystery · United States


## Synopsis

Slightly Honorable is a 1939 American mystery film directed by Tay Garnett and starring Pat O'Brien, Edward Arnold, and Broderick Crawford. The film was based on the 1939 novel Send Another Coffin by Frank Gilmore Presnell, Jr. (1906–1967).

## Credits

- **Director:** [Tay Garnett](https://cinepixo.com/people/tay-garnett)
- **Producer:** [Tay Garnett](https://cinepixo.com/people/tay-garnett), [Walter Wanger](https://cinepixo.com/people/walter-wanger)
- **Screenplay:** [Ken Englund](https://cinepixo.com/people/ken-englund)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Werner Janssen](https://cinepixo.com/people/werner-janssen)
- **Director of Photography:** [Merritt B. Gerstad](https://cinepixo.com/people/merritt-b-gerstad)
- **Editor:** [Dorothy Spencer](https://cinepixo.com/people/dorothy-spencer), [Otho Lovering](https://cinepixo.com/people/otho-lovering)

## Cast

- [Victor Potel](https://cinepixo.com/people/victor-potel)
- [Ernest Truex](https://cinepixo.com/people/ernest-truex)
- [Phyllis Brooks](https://cinepixo.com/people/phyllis-brooks)
- [Eve Arden](https://cinepixo.com/people/eve-arden)
- [Harold Alan Dinehart](https://cinepixo.com/people/harold-alan-dinehart)
- [Tay Garnett](https://cinepixo.com/people/tay-garnett)
- [Addison Richards](https://cinepixo.com/people/addison-richards)
- [Pat O'Brien](https://cinepixo.com/people/pat-o-brien)
- [Claire Dodd](https://cinepixo.com/people/claire-dodd)
- [Zack Williams](https://cinepixo.com/people/zack-williams)
- [Janet Beecher](https://cinepixo.com/people/janet-beecher)
- [Douglass Dumbrille](https://cinepixo.com/people/douglass-dumbrille)
- [Charles K. French](https://cinepixo.com/people/charles-k-french)
- [Broderick Crawford](https://cinepixo.com/people/broderick-crawford)
- [Evelyn Keyes](https://cinepixo.com/people/evelyn-keyes)

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Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/slightly-honorable-1939
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