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Half a Sinner is a american film of genre Comedy directed by Al Christie released in USA on 5 april 1940 with Heather Angel

Half a Sinner (1940)

Half a Sinner
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Released in USA 5 april 1940
Length 59minutes
Directed by
OriginUSA
Genres Comedy,    Adventure,    Crime
Rating62% 3.139723.139723.139723.139723.13972

Half a Sinner is a 1940 American film directed by Al Christie. It stars Heather Angel as a schoolteacher who in one day becomes Public Enemy Number One in Pennsylvania. The film is based on Dalton Trumbo's short story "Lady Takes a Chance". The working titles of this film were Everything Happens to Ann and The Lady Takes a Chance.

Synopsis

On the last day of school for the year, 25-year-old schoolteacher Miss Anne Gladden has one of her students writing punishment lines reading I WILL TRY TO BE GOOD on the blackboard. After the class is dismissed, she releases the boy from his punishment where she tells him that not everyone can do what they want to do in their life so they might as well make the best of what they have. She is overheard by an older teacher who remarks to Miss Gladden that she prefers the troublemaking students as they are the ones who can think for themselves. Anne is surprised at what she says with the older teacher replying that she has just turned 40 that day and has had regrets about not doing wild things when she was young. She advises Anne to do what she never did as one day she too will be old before she expects to be.

Actors

Heather Angel

(Anne Gladden)John King

(Larry Cameron)Constance Collier

(Mrs. Jefferson Breckenbridge)Walter Catlett

(Station Attendant)Robert Elliott

(Officer Kelly)
And :
Tom Dugan
Robert Elliot
Clem Bevans
Emma Dunn
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