Debt of Honour

1936 British film by Norman Walker

  • 27 March 1936 (1936-03-27)
Running time
83 minutesCountryUnited KingdomLanguageEnglish

Debt of Honour (also known as The Man Who Could Not Forget) is a 1936 British drama film directed by Norman Walker and starring Leslie Banks, Will Fyffe, Geraldine Fitzgerald and Garry Marsh. It was based on a story by Sapper, and scripted by Tom Geraghty and Cyril Campion.[1]

It was made at British and Dominions Elstree Studios by British National Films.[2]

Plot

A Colonel's daughter steals from the regimental mess funds to pay off her gambling debts. One of the officers, who is love with her, takes the blame, and is sent to Africa.[1]

Cast

  • Leslie Banks as Major Jimmie Stanton
  • Will Fyffe as Fergus McAndrews
  • Geraldine Fitzgerald as Peggy Mayhew
  • Niall MacGinnis as Lieutenant Peter Stretton
  • Reginald Purdell as Pedro Salvas
  • Garry Marsh as Bill
  • Stewart Rome as Major Purvis
  • Phyllis Dare as Mrs Stretton
  • Joyce Kennedy as Lady Bracebury
  • William Kendall as Paul Martin
  • Randle Ayrton as Captain Turner
  • Eric Cowley as Richard Denham
  • David Horne as Colonel Mayhew
  • Kathleen Davis as Kamara

References

  1. ^ a b Debt of Honour (1936), BFI.
  2. ^ Wood p.85

Bibliography

  • Low, Rachael. Filmmaking in 1930s Britain. George Allen & Unwin, 1985.
  • Wood, Linda. British Films, 1927-1939. British Film Institute, 1986.
  • Debt of Honour at IMDb
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The films of Norman Walker
  • Tommy Atkins (1928)
  • Widecombe Fair (1928)
  • A Romance of Seville (1929)
  • The Hate Ship (1929)
  • Loose Ends (1930)
  • The Middle Watch (1930)
  • Uneasy Virtue (1931)
  • The Shadow Between (1931)
  • Mr. Bill the Conqueror (1932)
  • Fires of Fate (1932)
  • The Fortunate Fool (1933)
  • Forging Ahead (1933)
  • The Flaw (1933)
  • The House of Trent (1933)
  • The Way of Youth (1934)
  • Lilies of the Field (1934)
  • Dangerous Ground (1934)
  • Turn of the Tide (1935)
  • Key to Harmony (1935)
  • Debt of Honour (1936)
  • Our Fighting Navy (1937)
  • Sunset in Vienna (1937)
  • The Man at the Gate (1941)
  • Hard Steel (1942)
  • The Great Mr. Handel (1942)
  • They Knew Mr. Knight (1946)
  • John Wesley (1954)


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