The Quitter

Name: The Quitter
Genre: Drama
Released: 1934-02-05
Duration: 1 h 8 min
Rating: 5.3
Cast: Charley Grapewin, Emma Dunn, William Bakewell

1934
1h 8min

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William Bakewell and Barbara Weeks in The Quitter (1934)

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Añade un argumento en tu idiomaWhen her husband, who founded the town's crusading local newspaper, doesn't come back from the French battlefields of World War I, a woman struggles to raise her two sons and keep the newspa... Leer todoWhen her husband, who founded the town's crusading local newspaper, doesn't come back from the French battlefields of World War I, a woman struggles to raise her two sons and keep the newspaper going. Matters are complicated by the fact that, several years later, one of the sons ... Leer todoWhen her husband, who founded the town's crusading local newspaper, doesn't come back from the French battlefields of World War I, a woman struggles to raise her two sons and keep the newspaper going. Matters are complicated by the fact that, several years later, one of the sons wants to turn the paper from its position as a hard-fighting champion of the working-class... Leer todo

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This film was first shown on television Thursday 7 December 1939 on New York City's pioneer, and still experimental television station W2XBS. Post WW-II television enthusiasts on the West Coast got their first look at it in Los Angeles Sunday 18 January 1953 on KECA (Channel 7) and in San Francisco Monday 4 May 1953 on KGO (Channel 7).

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The Local Paper

Charley Grapewin enlisted in the army during the First World War and left his wife, Emma Dunn, to run their weekly paper. He never came back, and she raised their two sons. Now there is a crisis going on. The younger son has been sent to military school and the elder, William Bakewell, has returned from college with plans of converting the paper to a daily to compete with the city papers moving in. Also, Grapewin has returned, although he has not told the sons.

It's presented as a two-set play, opened slightly, and director Richard Thorpe has cameraman M.A. Andersen and the unnamed editor breathe some life into the presentation with shifting angles and well-timed cuts. Given the small budgets available to Chesterfield in this period, Thorpe was a fine choice as director. He was one of those directors who could do very well with small budgets.

It's an interesting story about the small-town paper trade, written by Robert Ellis, who was done with acting and directing. He would continue as a screenwriter, mostly for 20th Century-Fox, through 1950 and live to be 82, dying in 1974.