I Promise to Pay

{{Short description|1937 film}}

{{For|the financial instrument|promissory note}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2020}}

{{Infobox film

| name = I Promise to Pay

| image = File:I Promise to Pay.jpg

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| director = D. Ross Lederman

| producer = Myles Connolly

| writer = Lionel Houser
Mary C. McCall Jr.

| starring = Chester Morris

| music = M. W. Stoloff

| cinematography = Lucien Ballard

| editing = James Sweeney

| distributor = Columbia Pictures

| released = {{Film date|1937|4|21}}

| runtime = 68 minutes

| country = United States

| language = English

}}

I Promise to Pay is a 1937 American drama film directed by D. Ross Lederman.{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/movies/movie/96073/I-Promise-to-Pay/overview |title=I Promise to Pay |access-date=November 30, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141208014040/http://www.nytimes.com/movies/movie/96073/I-Promise-to-Pay/overview |archive-date=December 8, 2014 |department=Movies & TV Dept. |work=The New York Times |publisher=Baseline & All Movie Guide |author=Hal Erickson |author-link=Hal Erickson (author) |date=2014 |url-status=dead }}

Plot

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Eddie Lang, a decent family man making $27.50 a week, borrows fifty-dollars from Richard Farra in order to take his wife, Mary and two small children on a vacation. He soon finds himself in the merciless clutches of Marra and his loan-shark gang. In desperation he tells his story to the district attorney, J.E.Curtis—only to be shot down on the steps of the Hall of Justice.

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