Badge of Honor

1934
PG
1h 8m

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Bob Gordon comes from a rich background but wants make it on his own. He dreams of becoming a newspaper reporter and he eventually gets his chance.Bob Gordon comes from a rich background but wants make it on his own. He dreams of becoming a newspaper reporter and he eventually gets his chance.Bob Gordon comes from a rich background but wants make it on his own. He dreams of becoming a newspaper reporter and he eventually gets his chance.

Director
- Spencer Gordon Bennet
Writers
- George Morgan
- Robert Emmett Tansey
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5.6/10

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Director
- Spencer Gordon Bennet
Writers
- George Morgan
- Robert Emmett Tansey
Stars

See production info at IMDbPro

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4/10

Slow And Steady Loses The Pace

Buster Crabbe has been trying to get a job on Ralph Lewis' newspaper, but managing editor John Trent keeps blocking him. After Crabbe saves Lewis' daughter, Ruth Hall, from a runaway horse, she gets him that job. However, Trent is working with crooked competitor Broderick O'Farrell to bring down Lewis' paper, What no one knows is that Crabbe is a well-connected young man who wants to make it on his own. After he uses his connections to stop some libel suits, win a fist fight against three men, and gain an impossible interview, Trent frames him by giving O'Farrell's paper the impossible interview. Crabbe is promptly fired.

Crabbe is young, sprightly, and turns this into a bit of an action movie. However, the script is nothing to write home about -- for a man who wants to make it on his own, he's quick to call in favors. He's also contending with director Spencer Gordon Bennett and editor Fred Bain, whose idea of pacing is to make 40 minutes of material fill up an hour. Crabbe looks like a promising young actor, but he can't do much with that combination against him.

boblipton
Apr 8, 2024
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This film is one of over 200 titles in the list of independent feature films made available for television presentation by Advance Television Pictures announced in Motion Picture Herald 4 April 1942. At this time, television broadcasting was in its infancy, almost totally curtailed by the advent of World War II, and would not continue to develop until 1945-1946. Because of poor documentation (feature films were often not identified by title in conventional sources) no record has yet been found of its initial television broadcast. Its earliest documented airings took place in Philadelphia Saturday 15 October 1949 on WCAU (Channel 10), in Cincinnati Sunday 27 November 1949 on WCPO (Channel 7), in Salt Lake City Thursday 15 December 1949 on KDYL (Channel 4), and in Los Angeles Tuesday 21 March 1950 on KECA (Channel 7).