The Quitter (1934)
When 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 into an upscale society paper catering to the rich and powerful. Matters are complicated even further by rumors that their father was in fact NOT killed in France during the war but took another man's identity and is still living there.
Director:
Richard Thorpe
Writer:
Robert Ellis
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Charley Grapewin as Ed Tilford |
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Emma Dunn as Cordelia Tilford |
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William Bakewell as Russell Tilford |
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Barbara Weeks as Diana Winthrop |
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Hale Hamilton as Maj. Stephen Winthrop |
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Glen Boles as Eddie Tilford |
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Mary Kornman as Annabelle Hibbs |
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Lafe McKee as Zack |
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Aggie Herring as Hannah |
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Jane Keckley as Sister Hooten |
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Edward LeSaint as Travers |
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Edmund Burns as |
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John Elliott as Advertiser |
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Frank LaRue as Townsman |
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Phillips Smalley as Graham the Banker |
| Writing | Robert Ellis | Screenplay |
| Directing | Richard Thorpe | Director |
