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Granny Get Your Gun
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Wikipedia article
'Granny Get Your Gun' is a 1940 comedy film directed by George Amy and written by Kenneth Gamet. The film stars May Robson, Harry Davenport, Margot Stevenson, Hardie Albright, Clem Bevans and Clay Clement. 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. on February 10, 1940.
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 Hildegarde Hatton
*Harry Davenport as Nathaniel 'Nate' Paulson
*Margot Stevenson as Julie Westcott
*Hardie Albright as Phillip 'Phil' Westcott
*Clem Bevans as Smokey
*Clay Clement as Riff Daggett
*William B. Davidson as Fitzgerald
*Arthur Aylesworth as Sheriff Quinn
*Granville Bates as Tom Redding
*Ann E. Todd as Charlotte
*Vera Lewis as Carrie
*Max Hoffman Jr. as Frayne
*Archie Twitchell as Joe
*Walter Wilson as Judge
*Nat Carr as Wadsworth
*Laird Cregar as Court Clerk (uncredited)
*Creighton Hale as Reporter (uncredited)
*Jack Mower as Bailiff (uncredited)
Reception
The film made a profit of $14,000.
References
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