PAYMENT DEFERRED.
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London bank clerk William Marble (Charles Laughton) is deeply in debt when his boss learns of a lawsuit for an overdue bill. Marble poisons his nephew and buries the body in the back yard. With the dead man's money, Marble speculates on margin and makes £30,000, a large sum that enables him to retire. His wife Annie (Dorothy Peterson) knows something is wrong, but wrongly guesses he has embezzled from the bank. Annie overhears and commits suicide with cyanide used to kill her husband.
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Registered 21Sep76 · LP47204 (Jan-Jun 1977) Copyright holder: Columbia Pictures Television, a division of Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc
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PAYMENT DEFERRED. 1932. 8 reels, sd., b&w. Based on the play by Jeffery F. Dell. Credits: Director, Lothar Mendes; screenplay, Ernest Vajda, Claudine West; film editor, Frank Sullivan. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Distributing Corp.; 17Oct32; LP3344.
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- 16mm Filmography (legacy record) — title, year, creator, length, genre, description, credits, catalog record
- Wikidata · Q7156778 ↗ — color, country
- U.S. Copyright Office, Catalog of Copyright Entries (renewals, 1970–1978) — copyright
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