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Socially-conscious banker Thomas Dickson faces a crisis when his protégé is wrongly accused of robbing the bank, gossip of the robbery starts a bank run, and evidence suggests Dickson's wife had an affair... all in the same day.
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Earnest, classical in form, grave and relentless.
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- contemplativerelentless
- character-ledplot-driven
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Cast
- Walter HustonThomas Dickson
- Pat O'BrienMatt Brown
- Kay JohnsonPhyllis Dickson
- Constance CummingsHelen
- Gavin GordonCyril Cluett
- Arthur HoytIves
- Robert Emmett O'ConnorPolice Inspector
- Edwin MaxwellClark (uncredited)
- Sterling HollowayOscar (uncredited)
- Robert EllisDude Finlay (uncredited)
Crew
- Frank CapraDirector
- Joseph WalkerDirector of Photography
- Mischa BakaleinikoffOriginal Music Composer
- Karl HajosOriginal Music Composer
- Maurice WrightEditor
- Frank CapraProducer
- Harry CohnProducer
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