Honours Easy

{{Short description|1935 British drama film}}

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{{Infobox film

| name = Honours Easy

| image = Honours_Easy_(1935_film).jpg

| caption =

| director = Herbert Brenon

| producer = Walter C. Mycroft

| writer = Roland Pertwee

| based_on = play Honours Easy by Roland Pertwee

| starring = {{ubl|Greta Nissen|Margaret Lockwood|Patric Knowles}}

| music =

| cinematography = Ronald Neame

| editing =

| studio = British International Pictures

| distributor = Wardour Films (UK)

| released = {{Film date|df=y|1935|07|31|London, England}}

| runtime = 62 minutes

| country = England

| language = English

| budget =

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Honours Easy is a 1935 British drama film directed by Herbert Brenon and starring Greta Nissen, Patric Knowles and Margaret Lockwood. It follows a man who tries to take revenge on a rival for a slight seventeen years before by framing his son for theft.[https://web.archive.org/web/20090113221704/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/36828 BFI.org] It was based on the play Honours Easy by Roland Pertwee.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Yyqc0Qa6b60C&q=honours+easy+1935&pg=PA365|title=The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film|first=Alan|last=Goble|date=1 January 1999|publisher=Walter de Gruyter|isbn=9783110951943|via=Google Books}}

It was an early role for Margaret Lockwood.

Plot

Unhinged art dealer William Barton (Ivan Samson) seeks revenge on a man who ruined his career years ago. He does so by attempting to frame the man's son for the theft of $2,500 from the safe in his gallery. However the son has an alibi in Barton's wife, with whom he is having an affair.

Cast

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