The Quitter
1934•NR•1h 8m•9.0•Released
Drama
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.
Director
Richard Thorpe
Writer
Robert Ellis
Languages
English
Studio
Chesterfield Motion Pictures Corporation (I)
Cast
Charley Grapewin
Ed Tilford
Emma Dunn
Cordelia Tilford
William Bakewell
Russell Tilford
Barbara Weeks
Diana Winthrop
Hale Hamilton
Maj. Stephen Winthrop
Glen Boles
Eddie Tilford
Mary Kornman
Annabelle Hibbs
Lafe McKee
Zack
Aggie Herring
Hannah
Jane Keckley
Sister Hooten
Edward LeSaint
Travers
Edmund Burns
John Elliott
Advertiser
Frank LaRue
Townsman
Phillips Smalley
Graham the Banker
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