I'd Give My Life (1936)

The movie, like the play "The Noose" on which it is based, is the story of a young man wrongfully convicted of and sentenced to be hanged for a murder which he never committed.

Director:

Edwin L. Marin

Writers:

H.H. Van Loan (play), Willard Mack (play),

Stars:

Guy Standing, Frances Drake, Tom Brown

Cast

Complete credited cast:
Guy Standing	...	Governor John Bancroft (as Sir Guy Standing)
Frances Drake	...	Mary Reyburn
Tom Brown	...	Nickie Elkins
Janet Beecher	...	Stella Bancroft
Robert Gleckler	...	Buck Gordon
Helen Lowell	...	Mrs. Bancroft, Sr.
Paul Hurst	...	Conly
Charles C. Wilson	...	Warden
Charles Richman	...	Attorney Bill Chase
Thomas E. Jackson	...	Doyle (as Tom Jackson)
Charles Judels

Storyline

The movie, like the play "The Noose" on which it is based, is the story of a young man wrongfully convicted of and sentenced to be hanged for a murder which he never committed.

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Plot Keywords:

based on play

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Taglines:

The dramatic story of a boy's loyalty to the mother he has never known...

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Genres:

Drama

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Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

14 August 1936 (USA)

Also Known As:

Daria a Própria Vida

Company Credits

Production Co:

Richard A. Rowland Productions

Technical Specs

Runtime:

73 min

Sound Mix:

Mono (Western Electric Sound System)

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

The aircraft the boy flies at the beginning to show off to his girl is a Monocoupe 90, registration NC192K, which apparently also appears in Flying Down to Rio. The aircraft he buzzes appears to be a DC-2.

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Connections

Remake of The Noose (1928)

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Soundtracks

"Someday We'll Meet Again"
Written by Con Conrad and Herb Magidson

User Reviews

More gallows humour

Genre: get me to the gallows on time. A new clean-up governor is told by the local crime boss that he'll regret being a new broom. A young protégé of the boss is in love with the beautiful singer (Frances Drake, who should have gone on to better things) in the night club which fronts the rackets. One of which is a wire service for a gambling joint: the clock runs slow so the joint knows the results whilst the punters are still betting (genre: the gee-gees are running late tonite).The boy refuses to throw a jockey out of his aeroplane for failing to lose a race, and plans to quit. The boss explains that in fact he is the boy's father by the governor's wife. He stole the boy when the relationship broke up and put him through reform school to train him for a life of crime. In a fight the boy shoots his father. At his trial he is sentenced to hang, not least because he offers no defence (he wants to protect his mother who believes her baby had died). At the appointed hour, the audience assembles to watch the hanging and the boy is led in. Meanwhile, outside the correctional, correction, terminal facility, the girl waits. Later she goes to see the governor to ask for the corpse to give is a decent burial. The governor agrees and rings the warden to arrange matters. However, the warder explains the hanging was deferred on receipt of a call from the governor's office. The boy has been saved, and everybody gathers in the office to find out what happened (it was the governor's soft-hearted but indomitable mother who made the call). At that moment a member of the crime boss's gang rings up to tell the governor the dead boss had the last, laugh, as it was his wife's son they've just topped. It is now clear why such a play was made of the wire scenes. Based on the play, The Noose, it all worked very smoothly and tautly, so one could forgive any number of implausibilities and bureaucratic nonsenses.