Black Sheep (1935 film)

Black Sheep is a 1935 American drama film directed by Allan Dwan and starring Edmund Lowe, Claire Trevor, and Tom Brown.[1]

Black Sheep
Directed byAllan Dwan
Produced bySol M. Wurtzel
Written byAllen Rivkin
Allan Dwan
StarringEdmund Lowe
Claire Trevor
Tom Brown
Music bySamuel Kaylin
CinematographyArthur C. Miller
Edited byAlex Troffey
Production
company
Fox Film Corporation
Distributed byFox Film Corporation
Release date
  • June 14, 1935 (1935-06-14)
Running time
76 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

The film's sets were designed by the art director Duncan Cramer.

Plot

Aboard a luxury liner, gambler John Francis Dugan makes the acquaintance of socialite Jeanette Foster, who has a reputation for using men to get her way. Jeanette cajoles him into sneaking her into First Class, where they see young Fred Curtis lose $12,000 at poker to a couple of oilmen, Belcher and Schmelling.

Fred's troubles grow worse when the haughty Millicent Bath has his markers and threatens to tell the police unless he helps her at Customs, sneaking some valuable pearls into the country that she ha stolen. Fred is so forlorn that he considers jumping overboard, until Jeanette stops him.

Dugan decides to help. He wins back Fred's debts at cards. When they return to Fred's stateroom, Dugan spots a photo of Fred's deceased mother and is shocked to discover that she was his ex-wife. Fred is his long-lost son.

Mrs. Bath has hidden the pearls inside a cane's handle. Dugan distracts her, replaces the pearls with pills, then hides the valuables inside the pocket of Belcher, the oilman. They spill out at Customs and are claimed by Mrs. Bath to belong to her, causing her to be taken away by the authorities. Dugan has become fond of Jeannette, who promises to change her old ways.

Cast
gollark: It's called multiple personality disorder.
gollark: It does remote debugging for potatOS and not really updates any more.
gollark: It's a CONCEPT.
gollark: It also manages incident reports.
gollark: SPUDNET stands for Super PotatOS Update/Debug NETwork, but it fell victim to scope creep.

References
  1. Solomon p.356

Bibliography
  • Aubrey Solomon. The Fox Film Corporation, 1915-1935: A History and Filmography. McFarland, 2011.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.