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
| caption =
| 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.
Cast
- Chester Morris as Eddie Lang
- Leo Carrillo as Richard Farra
- Helen Mack as Mary Lang
- Thomas Mitchell as District Attorney J.E. Curtis
- Thurston Hall as Police Captain Hall
- John Gallaudet as Al Morton - aka Johnson
- Patsy O'Connor as Judy Lang
- Wallis Clark as B.G. Wilson
- James Flavin as Bill Seaver
- Edward Keane as Mike Reardon
- Harry Woods as Henchman Fats
- Henry Brandon as Henchman Fancyface
- Marc Lawrence as Henchman Whitehat
References
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External links
- {{IMDb title|0029039|I Promise to Pay}}
- {{TCMDb title|id=78857}}
- {{AFI film|8288}}
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Category:American black-and-white films
Category:1930s English-language films
Category:Films directed by D. Ross Lederman
Category:Columbia Pictures films
Category:English-language drama films
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