After Office Hours

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After Office Hours
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Directed by Robert Z. Leonard
Written by Laurence Stallings
Dale Van Every
Screenplay by Herman J. Mankiewicz
Produced byRobert Z. Leonard
Bernard H. Hyman
Starring Clark Gable
Constance Bennett
Stuart Erwin
Cinematography Charles Rosher
Edited by Tom Held
Production
company
Distributed by Loew's Inc. [1]
Release date
  • February 22, 1935 (1935-02-22)
Running time
72 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$366,000 [2]
Box office$1.2 million [2]

After Office Hours is a 1935 American crime drama film directed by Robert Z. Leonard and starring Clark Gable, Constance Bennett, Stuart Erwin and Billie Burke. The screenplay was written by Herman Mankiewicz.

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Plot

Jim Branch (Clark Gable), a newspaper editor, falls for wealthy socialite Sharon Norwood (Constance Bennett), after having fired her as a reporter, all the while trying to solve a murder mystery, involving her childhood friend Tommy Bannister. Once Jim discovers that Sharon is involved with all the participants in the murder, she becomes even more attractive to him.

Cast

Box office

According to MGM records the film earned $759,000 in the US and Canada and $522,000 elsewhere resulting in a profit of $492,000. [2]

References

  1. ↑ After Office Hours at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films
  2. 1 2 3 The Eddie Mannix Ledger, Los Angeles: Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study.
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