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The Donovan Affair is a 1929 American Pre-Code comedic murder-mystery film directed by Frank Capra. It was produced by Harry Cohn for Columbia Pictures and is based upon the play of the same name by Owen Davis.
The Donovan Affair: Directed by Frank Capra. With Jack Holt, Dorothy Revier, William Collier Jr., Agnes Ayres. The lights go out at a high-society dinner party and one of the guests is murdered. The police are summoned and Inspector Killian shows up with his assistant Carney.
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- Action, Adventure, Comedy
- Frank Capra
- 1929-04-11
The Donovan Affair, director Frank Capra’s first talkie, is a comic mystery containing abundant clichés: wind, rain and lightning effects, murder in the dark, a dim-witted assistant detective, harebrained dinner guests, and re-enactments of the crime.
The Donovan Affair movie (1929) with Dorothy Revier, William Collier Jr., and Agnes Ayres: Frank Capra would win Best Director Academy Awards for It Happened One Night (1934), Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936), and You Can’t Take It with You (1938).
- Danny Fortune
Feb 19, 2018 · Owen Davis’s play The Donovan Affair (1926) fits snugly into this cycle. The action starts with Inspector Killian and his assistant Carney ushering the suspects into the Rankin family library. The rakish Jack Donovan has been murdered at a birthday dinner.
The Donovan Affair (1929) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
Jack Donovan is a womanizer, a cheat, and a thief. In other words, he's the perfect candidate to be rubbed out. Naturally, he attends a dinner party where everyone in attendance has a motive to do him in.
