Señor Jim
Cast & Crew
Jacques Jaccard
Conway Tearle
Barbara Bedford
Alberta Dugan
Fred Malatesta
Betty Mack
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
In swampland near the Louisiana state border, Señor Jim Stafford rescues Mona Cartier and her daughter Carole, who are running from Sheriff Bob Arnett and his deputies. The sheriff is acting on a court order to take Carole from Mona. After hiding Mona and the child, Jim approaches the sheriff, who has abandoned his horse and is searching the swamps on foot. By claiming that he is Mona's attorney, Jim convinces the sheriff to give up his pursuit of Mona, and learns that his own wife Bunny was behind Mona's persecution. Jim accompanies Mona and Carole to nearby Stafford City and, upon entering the Water-Hole Club, learns that Mona came to Stafford to get Carole's adoption papers from Roxy Stone, who stole them. Jim advises Mona to retrieve the papers that night and returns to his ranch with his friend, Mileaway, to find Bunny hosting a wild party that includes Stone. Jim asks the guests to leave and confronts Stone and Bunny, who responds by announcing her plans to divorce him and go to Europe. Stone, however, demands that Jim settle Bunny's I.O.U.'s, and he agrees to meet Stone at his ranch later that night. As a result of a violent argument between Bunny and Stone, Jim learns that Carole is actually Bunny's child and was abandoned a year before Bunny married him. Stone has been blackmailing Bunny about the matter, and that night, as he prepares to leave the country, he demands that Mona pay him a large sum of money for the adoption papers. Mona, who has taken a job as an entertainer at the Water-Hole, appeals to her boss, Nick Zellini, who is in love with her, for an advance on her salary. When Zellini learns of Stone's treachery, he angrily heads for Stone's ranch. Maysie, a fellow entertainer at the Water-Hole, advises Mona to arm herself and force Stone at gunpoint to hand over the papers. When Jim arrives at the ranch, he finds Stone dead and Mona feverishly ransacking his desk. Jim accuses Mona of killing Stone, but she denies it. He then searches futilely for the I.O.U.'s and the papers. Calling a meeting at the Water-Hole, Jim convinces the sheriff that Mona killed Stone, and she is arrested. Tortured by the belief that Mona, whom he now loves, lied to him, Jim refuses to continue as her attorney. Carole softens his heart, however, and he is determined to find the real killer. Finally, Jim tracks down Zellini in a hobo camp and, by staging a mock trial, forces him to confess to the murder. Mona is released, and she, Jim and Carole look forward to a life together.
Director
Jacques Jaccard
Cast
Conway Tearle
Barbara Bedford
Alberta Dugan
Fred Malatesta
Betty Mack
Dirk Thane
Evelyn Hagara
Bob Mckenzie
Harrison Greene
Ashton And Co'ena
Tove Lindan
Lloyd Brooks
Crew
Film Details
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Notes
No American reviews or release date were found for this film, however, the BFI's Monthyl Film Bulletin inclues a brief review in their July 1937 issue. Although the film is listed in the 1937 Film Daily Year Book as a 1935 Mitchell Leichter production, the title appears in a late March 1936 production chart. It is also listed in a January 2, 1937 Motion Picture Herald release chart as a Mitchell Leichter "coming attraction." The film was passed by the New York state censors on September 22, 1936. Film Daily reported on April 8, 1936 that Leichter had sold fourteen films to Elliott Film Co., a midwestern exchange, for release beginning September 15, 1936; Señor Jim May have been among those acquired.
