Granny Get Your Gun

Granny Get Your Gun
Granny Get Your Gun
Directed by	George Amy
Screenplay by	Kenneth Gamet
Based on	a story; by Erle Stanley Gardner
Produced by	Bryan Foy; (uncredited)
Starring	May Robson; Harry Davenport; Margot Stevenson; Hardie Albright
Cinematography	L. Wm. O'Connell A.S.C.
Edited by	Jack Killifer
Music by	Howard Jackson; (uncredited)
Production; company	Warner Bros.–First National Pictures
Distributed by	Warner Bros. Pictures
Release date	February 10, 1940;
Running time	56 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$98,000
Box office	$256,000

Granny Get Your Gun is a 1940 American comedy Western film directed by George Amy and written by Kenneth Gamet. The film stars May Robson, Harry Davenport, Margot Stevenson and Hardie Albright. It is based primarily on supporting characters found in the 1937 Perry Mason novel The Case of the Dangerous Dowager. The film was released by Warner Bros. Pictures on February 10, 1940.^[2]^[3]

Plot

Leonard Maltin: "Cute comic mystery... Robson is a hoot as a rough-riding Nevadan who straps on her six-shooters and turns sleuth to clear her granddaughter of a trumped-up murder charge."

Cast

May Robson as Minerva Hatton
Harry Davenport as Nate
Margot Stevenson as Julie Westcott
Hardie Albright as Phil Westcott
Clem Bevans as Smokey
Clay Clement as Riff Daggett
William Davidson as Fitzgerald
Arthur Aylesworth as Sheriff Quinn
Granville Bates as Tom Redding
Ann Todd as Charlotte
Vera Lewis as Carrie
Max Hoffman, Jr. as Frayne
Archie Twitchell as Joe
Walter Wilson as Judge
Nat Carr as Wadsworth

Uncredited (in order of appearance)

Creighton Hale	second reporter
Laird Cregar	court clerk
Jack Mower	bailiff
Harry Semels	juror
George Ovey	Cass
Earl Dwire	Jake
Dave Willock	young timid driver

Reception

The film made a profit of $14,000.^[1]

References

1 2 3 Mank, Gregory William (2018). Laird Cregar: A Hollywood Tragedy. McFarland.
↑ Hal Erickson (2015). "Granny-Get-Your-Gun - Trailer - Cast - Showtimes". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. Archived from the original on March 19, 2015. Retrieved June 17, 2015.
↑ "Granny Get Your Gun (1940) - Overview". Turner Classic Movies. Archived from the original on March 18, 2012. Retrieved June 17, 2015.

External links

Granny Get Your Gun at IMDb

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[laird-1] 1 2 3 Mank, Gregory William (2018). Laird Cregar: A Hollywood Tragedy. McFarland.

[2] Hal Erickson (2015). "Granny-Get-Your-Gun - Trailer - Cast - Showtimes". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. Archived from the original on March 19, 2015. Retrieved June 17, 2015.

[3] "Granny Get Your Gun (1940) - Overview". Turner Classic Movies. Archived from the original on March 18, 2012. Retrieved June 17, 2015.

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