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HONOR -- Based on a story by William Faulkner

HONOR -- Based on a story by William Faulkner

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Broadcast worldwide as part of a radio series celebrating William Faulkner's 100th birthday, the short story "Honor" from 1930 shows Faulkner in his Hollywood mode.  He worked as a screenwriter on several films directed by Howard Hawks, including To Have and Have Not, and many of his novels were adapted as films including Douglas Sirk's Tarnished Angels (1957) based on Faulkner's 1935 novel Pylon and starring Rock Hudson and Dorothy Malone.  In the story "Honor" a former World War I pilot becomes a wing-walker in a flying circus and takes a step too far with a dangerous woman.  Recorded in New York City with:

  • Campbell Scott as Buck Monaghan
  • Hope Davis as Nicole Rogers
  • Michael O'Keefe as Rogers
  • Leo Burmester as Waldrip
  • Guy Boyd as the Owner
  • J.R. Horne as Rinehart

Music composed and performed by Donald Stark
Adapted, produced and directed by Robert Clem

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