Motive for Revenge

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Donald Cook, Irene Hervey, and Doris Lloyd in Motive for Revenge (1935)

Aggiungi una trama nella tua linguaBank teller Barry Webster is driven to stealing bank funds by his mother-in-law who continually nags him about forcing her daughter Muriel to live in poverty. He is caught and sent to prison... Leggi tuttoBank teller Barry Webster is driven to stealing bank funds by his mother-in-law who continually nags him about forcing her daughter Muriel to live in poverty. He is caught and sent to prison and, while there, the mother forces Muriel to divorce him and marry a wealthy industriali... Leggi tuttoBank teller Barry Webster is driven to stealing bank funds by his mother-in-law who continually nags him about forcing her daughter Muriel to live in poverty. He is caught and sent to prison and, while there, the mother forces Muriel to divorce him and marry a wealthy industrialist. After serving his term and being released, the new husband catches Barry and Muriel to... Leggi tutto

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Interpreti principali23

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Donald Cook

Barry Webster

Irene Hervey

Muriel Webster King

Doris Lloyd

Mrs. Fleming

Edwin Maxwell

William King

William Millman

District Attorney Milroy
(as William Le Strange Millman)

Russell Simpson

McAllister

John Kelly

Detective Larkin

Edwin Argus

Detective Red

Billy West

Ray - Convict

Wheeler Oakman

Doane

Frank LaRue

Warden

Fern Emmett

Mrs. Kenilworthy - Housekeeper

Dorothea Wolbert

Annie - Maid
(as Dorothy Wolbert)

Bobby Burns

Milroy's Secretary
(non citato nei titoli originali)

Jack Cheatham

Policeman Duffy
(non citato nei titoli originali)

Charles K. French

Elderly Nightclub Patron
(non citato nei titoli originali)

Fred Howard

Convict
(non citato nei titoli originali)

Carl Mathews

Convict
(non citato nei titoli originali)

Regia
- Burt P. Lynwood
Sceneggiatura
- Stuart Anthony
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2/10

If it only made sense...

"Motive for Revenge" is a slack grade C thriller from the mid-1930s. Not every plot has to have a few shreds of logic but this one defies common sense. Donald Cook -- in a performance so wooden it gives timber a bad name -- is a bank clerk who can't come up with the funds to satisfy his wife and her doting mother. So he robs the bank, gets collared by the cops and is sent off to the slammer for seven years. Which provides an excuse to throw in a slew of prison stock footage. Meanwhile, the missus marries a bloated, arrogant buffoon who manages to get himself shot. Whodunit? The answer probably surprised even the screenwriters who came up with it. Irene Hervey gives a remarkably deft performance and a few decent stage actors manage to make the most of their cardboard roles. But otherwise, it's strictly Grade C.