The Reckless Hour

The Reckless Hour
Directed by	John Francis Dillon
Produced by	First National Pictures
Written by	Arthur Richman(play Ambush) Florence Ryerson
Starring	Dorothy Mackaill
Music by	David Mendoza Oscar Potoker
Cinematography	James Van Trees
Edited by	Harold Young
Distributed by	First National Pictures
Release dates	August 15, 1931
Running time	71 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

The Reckless Hour is a 1931 Pre-code film directed by John Francis Dillon and produced and distributed by First National Pictures.^[1]

Preserved at the Library of Congress.^[2]

Released on Warner Archive dvd with another Mackaill film, Bright Lights.

Cast

Dorothy Mackaill - Margaret Nichols
Conrad Nagel - Edward Adams
H. B. Warner - Walter Nichols
Joan Blondell - Myrtle Nichols
Walter Byron - Allen Crane
Joe Donahue - Harry Gleason
Dorothy Peterson - Miss Susie Jennison
Helen Ware - Harriett Nichols
Billy House - Seymour Jennison
Claude King - Howard Crane

unbilled

Robert Allen - Hal - Allen's friend
James T. Mack - Crane's Butler
Mae Madison - Rita
Ivan F. Simpson - Stevens, Adam's Butler

References

↑ The American Film Institute Catalog Feature Films: 1931-40 published by The American Film Institute, c.1993]
↑ Catalog of Holdings The American Film Institute Collection and The United Artists Collection at The Library of Congress by The American Film Institute, c.1978

External links

Films directed by John Francis Dillon

1910s	The Key to Yesterday (1914) His taking Ways(uncredited) (1914) Cats, Cash and a Cook Book (1915) Curing Father (1915) Deserted at the Auto (1915) One to the Minute (1915) Almost a Widow (1915) Johnny the Barber (1915) Anita's Butterfly (1915) Two Hearts and a Thief (1915) Kiddus, Kids and Kiddo (1915) Getting in Wrong (1916) Some Night (1916) Bungling Bill's Burglar (1916) Walk This Way (1916) Paddy's Political Dream (1916) Igorrotes, Crocodiles, and a Hat Box (1916) Heaven Will Protect a Woiking Goil (1916) Too Much Married (1916) Love Dynamite and Baseballs (1916) More Truth Than Poetry (1916) Bungling Bill's Peeping Ways (1916) Search Me! (1916) The Lion Hearted Chief (1916) Bungling Bill, Detective (1916) Knocking Out Knockout Kelly (1916) A Mix-Up in Photos (1916) Slipping It Over on Father (1916) Bungling Bill, Doctor (1916) A Mixup at Rudolph's (1916) Chinatown Villains (1916) National Nuts (1916) When Papa Died (1916) Nailing on the Lid (1916) His Blowout (1916) Delinquent Bridegrooms (1916) The Iron Mitt (1916) Just for a Kid (1916) Hired and Fired (1916) A Deep Sea Liar (1916) For Ten Thousand Bucks (1916) Bungling Bill's Dress Suit (1916)

1920s	Suds (1920) The Right of Way (1920) Blackbirds (1920) The Plaything of Broadway (1921) Children of the Night (1921) The Roof Tree (1921) Gleam O'Dawn (1922) The Yellow Stain (1922) The Cub Reporter (1922) Calvert's Valley (1922) Man Wanted (1922) The Broken Violin (1923) The Self-Made Wife (1923) The Huntress (1923) Flaming Youth (1923) Lilies of the Field (1924) The Perfect Flapper (1924) Flirting with Love (1924) If I Marry Again (1925) One Way Street (1925) Chickie (1925) The Half-Way Girl (1925) We Moderns (1925) Too Much Money (1926) Don Juan's Three Nights (1926) Midnight Lovers (1926) Love's Blindness (1926) The Sea Tiger (1927) The Prince of Headwaiters (1927) Smile, Brother, Smile (1927) The Crystal Cup (1927) Man Crazy (1927) The Noose (1928) The Heart of a Follies Girl (1928) Out of the Ruins (1928) Scarlet Seas (1928) Children of the Ritz (1929) Careers (1929) Fast Life (1929) Sally (1929)

1930s	Spring Is Here (1930)(uncredited) (1930) Bride of the Regiment (1930) The Girl of the Golden West (1930) One Night at Susie's (1930) Kismet (1930) Millie (1931) The Finger Points (1931) The Reckless Hour (1931) The Pagan Lady (1931) Behind the Mask (1932) The Cohens and Kellys in Hollywood (1932) Man About Town (1932) Call Her Savage (1932) Humanity (1933) 'Tis Spring (1933) The Big Shakedown (1934)