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The Quitter
The Quitter
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The Quitter

1934
1h 8m
Drama

Status

Released

Release

1934

Runtime

1h 8m

Storyline

When her husband, who founded the town's crusading local newspaper, doesn't come back from the French battlefields of World War I, a woman struggles to raise her two sons and keep the newspaper going. Matters are complicated by the fact that, several years later, one of the sons wants to turn the paper from its position as a hard-fighting champion of the working-class into an upscale society paper catering to the rich and powerful. Matters are complicated even further by rumors that their father was in fact NOT killed in France during the war but took another man's identity and is still living there.

Score Distribution

Details

Status
Released
Runtime
1h 8m
Feb 5, 1934
Languages
English
Director
Richard Thorpe
Richard Thorpe
Production
Chesterfield Motion Pictures Corporation (I)
Chesterfield Motion Pictures Corporation (I)
Production Countries
United States of America

Top Cast

15 Cast Members

Charley Grapewin

Charley Grapewin

Ed Tilford

Emma Dunn

Emma Dunn

Cordelia Tilford

William Bakewell

William Bakewell

Russell Tilford

Barbara Weeks

Barbara Weeks

Diana Winthrop

Hale Hamilton

Hale Hamilton

Maj. Stephen Winthrop

Glen Boles

Glen Boles

Eddie Tilford

Mary Kornman

Mary Kornman

Annabelle Hibbs

Lafe McKee

Lafe McKee

Zack

Aggie Herring

Aggie Herring

Hannah

Jane Keckley

Jane Keckley

Sister Hooten

Edward LeSaint

Edward LeSaint

Travers

Edmund Burns

Edmund Burns

John Elliott

John Elliott

Advertiser

Frank LaRue

Frank LaRue

Townsman

Phillips Smalley

Phillips Smalley

Graham the Banker

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