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The Scoundrel is a american film of genre Drama directed by Ben Hecht released in USA on 30 april 1935 with Julie Haydon

The Scoundrel (1935)

The Scoundrel
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Released in USA 30 april 1935
Length 1h16
Directed by ,    
OriginUSA
Genres Drama
Rating61% 3.0976853.0976853.0976853.0976853.097685

The Scoundrel is a 1935 drama film directed by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur, and starring Noël Coward, Julie Haydon, Stanley Ridges, Rosita Moreno, and Lionel Stander. It was Coward's film debut, aside from a bit role in a silent film. It deals with supernatural redemption in a way rather similar to Ferenc Molnár's Liliom, and drew inspiration from the life of publisher Horace Liveright, who had died in September 1933.

Synopsis

Anthony Mallare (Coward) is a publisher who (it appears) wishes to ruin the life of every person he comes in contact with. Every sentence he says is like a poisoned dart aimed for the greatest damage, and delivered in cold lifeless tones. He is under no illusion regarding his own personality, remarking to his staff at large that he has found the perfect woman - one as empty as he is: "I must marry her......it would be like two empty paper bags belaboring one another". He finally manages to completely destroy the career and life of an aspiring young author (Ridges) and his girlfriend (Haydon), who curses him with the hope that he will die friendless. Shortly afterwards he is killed when his plane crashes into the ocean—Haydon's character, upon hearing of the tragedy, remarks, "I've just found out there IS a God!"

Actors

Julie Haydon

(Cora Moore)Noël Coward

(Anthony Mallare)Harry Davenport

(Slezack)Stanley Ridges

(Paul Decker)Martha Sleeper

(Julia Vivian)
And :
Rosita Moreno
Lionel Stander
Ernest Cossart
Eduardo Ciannelli
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