We're Only Human is a 1935 American crime drama film directed by James Flood from a screenplay by Rian James. Starring Preston Foster, Jane Wyatt, and James Gleason, it was released by RKO Radio Pictures on December 27, 1935.
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| Directed by | James Flood Clem Beauchamp (assistant) |
| Screenplay by | Rian James Bartlett Cormack |
| Based on | [1][2] |
| Produced by | Edward Kaufman |
| Starring | Preston Foster Jane Wyatt James Gleason |
| Cinematography | J. Roy Hunt |
| Edited by | Archie F. Marshek |
| Music by | Roy Webb |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | RKO Radio Pictures |
Release date |
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Running time | 68 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Plot
editA police detective and his girlfriend try to catch an escaped gangster.
Cast
edit- Preston Foster as Det. Sgt. Pete 'Mac' McCaffrey
- Jane Wyatt as Sally Rogers
- James Gleason as Detective Danny Walsh
- Arthur Hohl as Lawyer John Martin
- John Arledge as Johnny O'Brien
- Jane Darwell as Mrs. Walsh
- Moroni Olsen as Inspector J.R. Curran
- Christian Rub as William Anderson
- Mischa Auer as William 'Lefty'
Development
editThe story was based on “Husk,” a short story by Thomas Walsh that was published in The Saturday Evening Post in the same year the movie was filmed.
Critical reception
editVariety’s reviewer gave the film a mostly negative assessment, and wrote that the story is “very simple and elementary” and “just barely manages to maintain some suspense”. The performances of Preston Foster and Jane Wyatt were described as “hackneyed”, however “Christian Rub …. gives a swell performance …. while Rafaela Ottiano …. also impresses.”[4]
The Film Daily described the film as "primarily a fast moving melodramatic yarn" that benefited from a romance between the Preston Foster and Jane Wyatt characters and good performances from the cast.[5]
References
edit- ↑ https://catalog.afi.com/Catalog/MovieDetails/5331
- ↑ tcm.com
- ↑ "We're Only Human: Detail View". American Film Institute. Archived from the original on March 29, 2014. Retrieved September 9, 2014.
- ↑ "We're Only Human". Variety. January 22, 1936. Retrieved May 26, 2026 – via Internet Archive.
- ↑ ""WE'RE ONLY HUMAN" with Preston Foster, Jane Wyatt, James Gleason". The Film Daily. January 18, 1936. Retrieved June 27, 2026 – via Internet Archive.
External links
edit- We're Only Human at IMDb
- We're Only Human at the TCM Movie Database (archived)
- We're Only Human at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films
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