Her Husband Lies (1937)
HE COULDN'T PLAY STRAIGHT WITH A WOMAN!
74 min
J. Ward Thomas of Park Avenue leads a double life as an investment broker and as notorious gambler Spade Martin, despite the protests of his beautiful wife Natalie, a nightclub singer who retired when they married. Spade's younger brother "Chick" wires Spade from Seattle that he has quit gambling for a job in real estate and is about to marry a nice girl named Betty. Relieved to find his kid brother is straight, Spade sends him $10,000 cash as a wedding present. When a woman posing as a pregnant wife comes to Spade for a loan, Spade gives it to her. Later, when Steve Burdick, the woman's supposed husband, brags in a bar that he made a fool of Spade, Spade's hit man, Trigger, kills Burdick. Tired of Spade's gambling, Natalie books a return engagement at Cafe Nocturne, telling him that she is a singer rather than a wife now.
- Release date
- March 13, 1937
- Country of origin
- United States
Cast
- Gail Patrick as Natalie Martin
- Ricardo Cortez as J. Ward Thomas (Spade Martin)
- Akim Tamiroff as Big Ed Bullock
- Tom Brown as 'Chick' Thomas
- Louis Calhern as Joe Sorrell
- June Martel as Betty Thomas
- Dorothy Peterson as Dorothy Powell
- Ralf Harolde as Steve Burdick
- Adrian Morris as Carwig
- Ray Walker as Maxie
Crew
- Edward Ludwig · Director
- Oliver H.P. Garrett · Writer
- Wallace Smith · Writer
- Eve Greene · Writer
- B.P. Schulberg · Producer
- Leon Shamroy · Cinematographer
- Robert Bischoff · Editor