Compromised

About Compromised

Compromised is a 1931 American pre-code drama film produced and released by First National Pictures, a subsidiary of Warner Bros. Pictures, and directed by John G. Adolfi. The film stars Rose Hobart, Ben Lyon, and Claude Gillingwater. It was based on a play by Edith Fitzgerald. This film is presumed lost.

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Cast

Rose Hobart as Ann Brock

Ben Lyon as Sidney Brock

Claude Gillingwater as John Brock

Florence Britton as Louise Brock

Emma Dunn as Mrs. Squires

Bert Roach as Tony

Delmar Watson as Sandy

Louise Mackintosh as Mrs. Munsey

Juliette Compton as Connie Holt

Edgar Norton as Tipton

Adele Watson as Mrs. Bird

Virginia Sale as Maggie

Preservation

No film elements are known to survive. The soundtrack, which was recorded on Vitaphone disks, may survive in private hands.

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Notable quotes

“Nearly all legislation is the result of compromise.”
— Maxim quoted in a tribute to Cannon on his retirement, reported in The Sun, Baltimore, Maryland (March 4, 1923); Congressional Record (March 4, 1923), vol. 64, p. 5714.
“I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot.”
— John of Patmos, Revelation 3:15 KJV
“I believe in friendly compromise. I said over in the Senate hearings that truth is the glue that holds government together. Compromise is the oil that makes governments go.”
— Gerald Ford, remarks during hearings before the House Committee on the Judiciary (November 15, 1973), Nomination of Gerald R. Ford to Be the Vice President of the United States, hearings before the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives (1973), 93d Congress, 1st session.
“On its first coming before me, I strongly recommended it here. But if the parties will have it decided, we must give our opinion. Compassion will not, on the one hand, nor inconvenience on the other, be to decide, but the law: in which the difficulty will be principally from the inconvenience on both sides.”
— Lord Mansfield, Somerset v. Stewart (1772), Lofft. 17; reported in James William Norton-Kyshe, Dictionary of Legal Quotations (1904), p. 38.
“We will compromise on almost anything, but not on our values, or our aesthetics, or our idealism, or our sense of curiosity.”
— Anita Roddick, Body and Soul (1991), ch.11.
“I'm not big on compromise. I understand compromise. Sometimes compromise is the right answer, but oftentimes compromise is the equivalent of defeat, and I don't like being defeated.”
— Donald Trump, in Life, Vol. 12 (January 1989), p. iii.

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