The Scoundrel (1935)
A ruthless, cynical, hated publisher is killed in a plane crash, doomed to be a "restless" spirit for being unloved. A heavenly power gives him a month on Earth to find one person to shed a tear for him before his fate is sealed.
- Date of release
- 1935-04-30
- TMDB
- 6.3 / 10 (15)
- Runtime
- 1h 16m
- Genres
- Drama
- Director
- Ben Hecht, Charles MacArthur
Casting
- Noël Coward — Anthony Mallare
- Julie Haydon — Cora Moore
- Stanley Ridges — Paul Decker
- Martha Sleeper — Julia Vivian
- Ernest Cossart — Jimmy Clay
- Alexander Woollcott — Vanderveer Veyden
- Everley Gregg — Mildred Langwiter
- Rosita Moreno — Carlotta
- Eduardo Ciannelli — Maurice Stern
- Richard Bond — Howard Gillette
- Helen Strickland — Mrs. Rolinson
- Lionel Stander — Rothenstien
Interesting facts
- Awards: 2 · Nominations: 1. Including: Academy Award for Best Story; 1936 New York Film Critics Circle Awards
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.
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