Without Honor

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Without Honor
DVD cover
Directed by	Irving Pichel
Produced by	Raymond Hakim Robert Hakim
Written by	James Poe
Starring	Bruce Bennett Laraine Day Dane Clark Agnes Moorehead Franchot Tone
Music by	Max Steiner
Distributed by	United Artists
Release date(s)	October 26, 1949 (Boston, Massachusetts) (premiere)
Running time	69 min.
Language	English
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Without Honor (1949) is a film noir starring Laraine Day and Dane Clark.

Contents 1 Plot 2 Reaction 3 Featured cast 4 References

[edit] Plot

A housewife (Day) is confronted during her daily chores by her married lover (Tone). The man, after a long affair, tells the woman that he has to break off their relationship. The woman threatens suicide but when she picks up a shish kabob skewer the two struggles and the man is stabbed in the chest and collapses. The housewife hides the body in the house. Before she can leave, her brother in law (Clark) arrives and tells the woman that he knows about the affair and that he's invited her husband, her lover and his wife to her house this evening so that he can tell them about the affair. The woman, in a panic worrying that they'll find out about the killing, attempts to flee but can't get away for her vengeful brother in law.

[edit] Reaction

Arthur Lions, in the book Death on the Cheap: The Lost B Movies of Film Noir, notes "A top-notch cast is wasted in a total clunker. The film takes the award, however, for the movie with the shortest performance by a top-billed star. Leading man Tone, after his brief initial appearance, spends most of the picture as the "corpse" in the laundry room." ^[1]

[edit] Featured cast

Actor	Role
Bruce Bennett	Fred Bandle
Dane Clark	Bill Bandle
Agnes Moorehead	Katherine Williams
Laraine Day	Jane Bandle
Franchot Tone	Dennis Williams

[edit] References