Honours Easy

Honours Easy
Directed by	Herbert Brenon
Written by	Roland Pertwee
Based on	play Honours Easy by Roland Pertwee
Produced by	Walter C. Mycroft
Starring	Greta Nissen Margaret Lockwood Patric Knowles
Cinematography	Ronald Neame
Production company	British International Pictures
Distributed by	Wardour Films (UK)
Release dates	31 July 1935 (1935-07-31) (London, England)
Running time	62 minutes
Country	England
Language	English

Honours Easy is a 1935 British drama film directed by Herbert Brenon and starring Greta Nissen, Patric Knowles and Margaret Lockwood. It follows a man who tries to take revenge on a rival for a slight seventeen years before by framing his son for theft.^[1] It was based on the play Honours Easy by Roland Pertwee.^[2]

It was an early role for Margaret Lockwood.

Plot

Unhinged art dealer William Barton (Ivan Samson) seeks revenge on a man who ruined his career years ago. He does so by attempting to frame the man's son for the theft of $2,500 from the safe in his gallery. However the son has an alibi in Barton's wife, with whom he is having an affair.

Cast

• Greta Nissen as Ursula Barton
• Patric Knowles as Harry Markham
• Margaret Lockwood as Ann
• George Graves as Colonel Bagnall
• W. H. Berry as Joe Budd
• Chili Bouchier as Kate
• Robert Rendel as Sir Henry Markham
• Ivan Samson as William Barton

References

1. BFI.org
2. Goble, Alan (1 January 1999). The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter. ISBN 9783110951943 – via Google Books.

External links

• Honours Easy at IMDb
• Honours Easy at TCMDB