--- title: 'The Scoundrel (1935)' type: 'film' director: 'Ben Hecht' released: '1935-01-01' runtime_minutes: 65 genres: - 'Drama' countries: - 'United States' canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/the-scoundrel-1935' review_count: 0 imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0026970/' publisher: 'CinePixo' --- # The Scoundrel (1935) 1935 · 65 min · Drama · United States ## Synopsis The Scoundrel is a 1935 American drama film directed by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur, and starring Noël Coward, Julie Haydon, Stanley Ridges, Rosita Moreno and Lionel Stander. It was Coward's film debut, aside from a bit role in a silent film. It deals with supernatural redemption in a way rather similar to Ferenc Molnár's Liliom, and drew inspiration from the life of publisher Horace Liveright, who had died in September 1933. ## Credits - **Director:** [Ben Hecht](https://cinepixo.com/people/ben-hecht), [Charles MacArthur](https://cinepixo.com/people/charles-macarthur) - **Screenplay:** [Ben Hecht](https://cinepixo.com/people/ben-hecht) - **Producer:** [Ben Hecht](https://cinepixo.com/people/ben-hecht) - **Original Music Composer:** [George Antheil](https://cinepixo.com/people/george-antheil) - **Director of Photography:** [Lee Garmes](https://cinepixo.com/people/lee-garmes) - **Editor:** [Arthur Edward Ellis](https://cinepixo.com/people/arthur-edward-ellis) ## Cast - [Burgess Meredith](https://cinepixo.com/people/burgess-meredith) - [Noël Coward](https://cinepixo.com/people/noel-coward) - [Lionel Stander](https://cinepixo.com/people/lionel-stander) - [Stanley Ridges](https://cinepixo.com/people/stanley-ridges) - [Harry Davenport](https://cinepixo.com/people/harry-davenport) - [Ernest Cossart](https://cinepixo.com/people/ernest-cossart) - [Eduardo Ciannelli](https://cinepixo.com/people/eduardo-ciannelli) - [Martha Sleeper](https://cinepixo.com/people/martha-sleeper) ## Criticism on CinePixo No reviews published yet. Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/the-scoundrel-1935 Film facts: Wikidata (Q1305415); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.