
Union Depot
Union Depot is a 1932 American pre-Code melodrama film directed by Alfred E. Green for Warner Bros., starring Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and Joan Blondell, and based on an unpublished play by Joe Laurie Jr., Gene Fowler, and Douglas Durkin. The film, an ensemble piece for the studio's contract players, also features performances by Guy Kibbee, Alan Hale, Frank McHugh, David Landau, and George Rosener. In the United Kingdom it was released under the title Gentleman for a Day.
Plot
Charles "Chic" Miller (Douglas Fairbanks Jr.) is a hobo released from jail for vagrancy, along with fellow drifter "Scrap Iron" Scratch (Guy Kibbee). The two men walk to the local railroad station to hop a train out of town. Through a series of chance encounters at Union Depot, Chic becomes, in his words, a "gentleman for a day".
Cast
More details
author | John Bright Kenyon Nicholson Kubec Glasmon Walter DeLeon |
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director | Alfred Edward Green |
editor | Jack Killifer |
genre | drama |
keywords | boarding house chance encounter chorus girl coal bin counterfeit money david landau dress shop earle foxe even follow george rosener government agents guy kibbee hobo kill locked door pass pawn pawnbroker pickpocket pickpocketing rail car railroad station railroad track sale salt lake city scream search station master string tick vagrancy wait walk |
musicBy | Leo F. Forbstein |
productionCompany | First National Pictures |
publisher | Warner Bros. |
theme | melodrama transport |