--- title: 'They Gave Him a Gun (1937)' type: 'film' director: 'W. S. Van Dyke' released: '1937-01-01' runtime_minutes: 94 genres: - 'Drama' - 'Crime' countries: - 'United States' canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/they-gave-him-a-gun-1937' review_count: 0 imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0029656/' publisher: 'CinePixo' --- # They Gave Him a Gun (1937) 1937 · 94 min · Drama, Crime · United States ## Synopsis They Gave Him a Gun is a 1937 American crime drama film directed by W. S. Van Dyke and starring Spencer Tracy, Gladys George and Franchot Tone. The picture bears a resemblance to later films noir, with its dark theme regarding the struggles and failures of a man trying to take a criminal shortcut to the American dream. The screenplay was written by Cyril Hume, Richard Maibaum and Maurice Rapf, based on the 1936 book of the same name by William J. Cowen. On March 20, 1937, director W.S. Van Dyke "announced Henry Mahan was cast in 'They Gave Him A Gun', joining Sam Levene and Teddy Hart, the three swell comedians in the film version of Three Men on a Horse", but none of these actors appear in the final cut. ## Credits - **Director:** [W. S. Van Dyke](https://cinepixo.com/people/w-s-van-dyke) - **Screenplay:** [Cyril Hume](https://cinepixo.com/people/cyril-hume) - **Original Music Composer:** [Sigmund Romberg](https://cinepixo.com/people/sigmund-romberg) - **Producer:** [Harry Rapf](https://cinepixo.com/people/harry-rapf) ## Cast - [Franchot Tone](https://cinepixo.com/people/franchot-tone) - [Mary Treen](https://cinepixo.com/people/mary-treen) - [Ralph Byrd](https://cinepixo.com/people/ralph-byrd) - [Spencer Tracy](https://cinepixo.com/people/spencer-tracy) - [Cliff Edwards](https://cinepixo.com/people/cliff-edwards) - [Horace McMahon](https://cinepixo.com/people/horace-mcmahon) - [Ward Bond](https://cinepixo.com/people/ward-bond) - [Charles Trowbridge](https://cinepixo.com/people/charles-trowbridge) - [Gladys George](https://cinepixo.com/people/gladys-george) ## Criticism on CinePixo No reviews published yet. Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/they-gave-him-a-gun-1937 Film facts: Wikidata (Q7783714); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.