Soldiers and Women

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Soldiers and Women
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Directed by Edward Sloman
Written by Dorothy Howell
Based onplay, Soldiers and Women, by Paul Hervey Fox and George Tilton [1]
Produced by Harry Cohn
Starring Aileen Pringle
Grant Withers
Walter McGrail
Cinematography Ted Tetzlaff
Edited byLeonard Wheeler
Production
company
Distributed byColumbia Pictures
Release date
  • April 30, 1930 (1930-04-30)
Running time
69 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Soldiers and Women is a 1930 American pre-Code mystery crime film directed by Edward Sloman and starring Aileen Pringle, Grant Withers and Walter McGrail. Produced by Columbia Pictures, it is based on a 1929 stage play by Paul Hervey Fox and George Tilton. [2] A print is preserved by the Library of Congress. [3]

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Plot

Captain Clive Branch of the United States Marine Corps is stationed with the garrison in Haiti, where he is conducting affairs with the wives of two fellow officers. When one of the husbands is murdered he comes under suspicion of the killing.

Cast

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References

  1. Soldiers and Women as produced on Broadway at the Ritz Theatre, Sept.-Oct. 1929
  2. The AFI Catalog of Feature Films:Soldiers and Women
  3. Catalog of Holdings The American Film Institute Collection and The United Artists Collection at The Library of Congress, p.170 c.1978 by The United Artists