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Honesty – The Best Policy is a 1926 American silent comedy film directed by Chester Bennett and Albert Ray and starring Rockliffe Fellowes, Pauline Starke and Johnnie Walker.
Honesty - The Best Policy: Directed by Chester Bennett, Albert Ray. With Rockliffe Fellowes, Pauline Starke, Johnnie Walker, Grace Darmond. An author's wife threatens to send him out to work unless he sells a story.
- Chester Bennett, Albert Ray
- 1926-08-08
- Comedy, Drama
- 50
Overview. An author's wife threatens to send him out to work unless he sells a story. Finding a publisher who will accept only true stories, the author proceeds to unravel his own past: As a notorious criminal, with his wife as accomplice, he commits robberies, is pursued and captured, escapes, and eventually reforms.
Directed by Chester Bennett, Albert Ray. The story has a bad man, a detective and a bobbed-hair girl in a triangle of intrigue and adventure. Narrow escapes, chases and thrills intermingle and make an interesting picture. An author’s wife threatens to send him out to work unless he sells a story.
- Chester Bennett, Albert Ray
Howard Hawks' final effort as a screenwriter before becoming a full-time director was the trifling comedy Honesty -- The Best Policy. The hero, an author of comic stories who yearns to write mysteries, brings his latest work to a publisher.
- Chester Bennett
Honesty Is the Best Policy: Directed by Robert M. Leeds. With Buddy Ebsen, Irene Ryan, Donna Douglas, Max Baer Jr.. Flo Shafer is intent on helping Shifty regain his scheming composure.
An author's wife threatens to send him out to work unless he sells a story. Finding a publisher who will accept only true stories, the author proceeds to unravel his own past: As a notorious criminal, with his wife as accomplice, he commits robberies, is pursued and captured, escapes, and eventually reforms.
