Half a Sinner
Cast & Crew
Al Christie
Heather Angel
John King
Constance Collier
Walter Catlett
Tom Dugan
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Synopsis
Ignoring the advice of her crochety old grandmother, straightlaced schoolteacher Anne Gladden decides to discard her glasses, buy a new outfit and relish one day of freedom doing exactly as she pleases. Things don't work out exactly as she has planned, however, when, to avoid the unwelcome advances of a gangster, Anne jumps into a parked limousine and speeds away. Unknown to Anne, the car is stolen and a dead body is stashed in the back seat. As she drives along the road, the car's owner, Larry Cameron, recognizes his stolen vehicle and hails Anne to stop. His curiosity aroused when he discovers the body in the back seat, Larry pretends that he has car trouble and that he, too, is a crook. The discovery of the corpse signals just the beginning of their troubles, for soon they are being pursued by the police and by the gangsters, who are bent on retrieving the body. To throw the police off their trail, Larry switches license plates with dowager Mrs. Jefferson Breckenridge, and then drives Anne to a mansion he pretends he is going to rob. As they eat dinner in the mansion's kitchen, they are attacked by gangsters but rescued by Mrs. Breckenridge, who has followed them. After Mrs. Breckenridge exposes Larry as the real owner of the car and house, they return the car to the gangsters' headquarters, where they are taken captive by Slick, the gang leader. Once again, Mrs. Breckenridge comes to their rescue, aided by the police, and with their troubles at an end, Anne and Larrry decide to marry.
Director
Al Christie
Cast
Heather Angel
John King
Constance Collier
Walter Catlett
Tom Dugan
Robert Elliot
Clem Bevans
Emma Dunn
Henry Brandon
William B. Davidson
Fern Emmett
Sonny Bupp
Wilbur Mack
Joe Devlin
Fred Kohler Jr.
Wilson Benge
Dick Cramer
Antonia Oland
Sam Bernard
Floyd Criswell
Cy Shindell
Bill Hunter
Jeanne Criswell
Fred Schaefer
Pietro Sosso
Michael Healy
Harry Mckee
Steve Benton
Barbara Denny
Marcelle Smith
Crew
Ralph Berger
Chris Beute
David Chudnow
Bert Eason
Gordon Griffith
Ray Hunt
Frederick Jackson
John Jenkins
Millard Kaufman
Jay Lang
Bob Martin
Barney Rogan
Fred Scheld
Earl Sitar
Jack Skirball
Manny Speck
Glenn P. Thompson
Charles Van Enger
Frank Webster
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The working titles of this film were Everything Happens to Ann and The Lady Takes a Chance. The picture began as an Arcadia production on February 1939, and according the the MPPA/PCA Collection at the AMPAS Library, it was to have been released by Grand National Pictures. With the demise of Grand National, Universal distributed and copyrighted the film in 1940.
