The Quitter (1934 film)

The Quitter is a 1934 American drama film directed by Richard Thorpe and starring Charley Grapewin, Emma Dunn and Barbara Weeks. It was produced and distributed by the Poverty Row studio Chesterfield Pictures, later absorbed into Republic.

Plot
When her husband, the founder of a crusading newspaper, doesn't return from serving in France in World War I his wife takes over both the newspaper and the raising of their two sons. As he grows one of her sons wants the newspaper to abandon its traditional stance and try and move more up market. Stories also begin to circulate that her husband did not die in the war, but is still living abroad under a new identity.

Cast

 * Charley Grapewin as 	Ed Tilford
 * Emma Dunn as 	Cordelia Tilford
 * William Bakewell as 	Russell Tilford
 * Barbara Weeks as 	Diana Winthrop
 * Hale Hamilton as 	Maj. Stephen Winthrop
 * Glen Boles as Eddie Tilford
 * Mary Kornman as 	Annabelle Hibbs
 * Lafe McKee as Zack
 * Aggie Herring as Hannah
 * Jane Keckley as 	Sister Hooten
 * Edward LeSaint as 	Travers
 * John Elliott as Advertiser
 * Frank LaRue as Townsman
 * Phillips Smalley as Graham the Banker