Granny Get Your Gun

Granny Get Your Gun
Directed by	George Amy
Screenplay by	Kenneth Gamet
Based on	a story by Erle Stanley Gardner
Produced by	Bryan Foy (uncredited)
Starring	May Robson Harry Davenport Margot Stevenson Hardie Albright
Cinematography	L. Wm. O'Connell A.S.C.
Edited by	Jack Killifer
Music by	Howard Jackson (uncredited)
Production company	A Warner Bros.–First National Picture
Distributed by	Warner Bros.
Release date	February 10, 1940 (1940-02-10)
Running time	56 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$98,000 [1]
Box office	$256,000 [1]

Granny Get Your Gun is a 1940 American comedy Western film directed by George Amy and written by Kenneth Gamet. The film stars May Robson, Harry Davenport, Margot Stevenson and Hardie Albright. It is based primarily on supporting characters found in the 1937 Perry Mason novel The Case of the Dangerous Dowager. The film was released by Warner Bros. on February 10, 1940. ^{[2] [3]}

Plot

Leonard Maltin: "Cute comic mystery... Robson is a hoot as a rough-riding Nevadan who straps on her six-shooters and turns sleuth to clear her granddaughter of a trumped-up murder charge."

Cast

• May Robson as Minerva Hatton
• Harry Davenport as Nate
• Margot Stevenson as Julie Westcott
• Hardie Albright as Phil Westcott
• Clem Bevans as Smokey
• Clay Clement as Riff Daggett
• William Davidson as Fitzgerald
• Arthur Aylesworth as Sheriff Quinn
• Granville Bates as Tom Redding
• Ann Todd as Charlotte
• Vera Lewis as Carrie
• Max Hoffman, Jr. as Frayne
• Archie Twitchell as Joe
• Walter Wilson as Judge
• Nat Carr as Wadsworth

Uncredited (in order of appearance)

Creighton Hale	second reporter
Laird Cregar	court clerk
Jack Mower	bailiff
Harry Semels	juror
George Ovey	Cass
Earl Dwire	Jake
Dave Willock	young timid driver

Reception

The film made a profit of $14,000. ^[1]

References

1. Mank, Gregory William (2018). Laird Cregar: A Hollywood Tragedy. McFarland.
2. Hal Erickson (2015). "Granny-Get-Your-Gun - Trailer - Cast - Showtimes". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times . Archived from the original on 2015-03-19. Retrieved 2015-06-17.
3. "Granny Get Your Gun (1940) - Overview". Turner Classic Movies. Archived from the original on March 18, 2012. Retrieved 2015-06-17.

External links

• Granny Get Your Gun at IMDb