Professional Soldier

Professional Soldier
Poster of Professional Soldier
Directed byTay Garnett
Screenplay byGene Fowler
Howard Ellis Smith
Based on"Gentlemen, the King!"
by Damon Runyon
Produced byDarryl F. Zanuck
StarringVictor McLaglen
Freddie Bartholomew
CinematographyRudolph Maté
Edited byBarbara McLean
Production
company
Release date
  • December 27, 1935 (1935-12-27)
Running time
75 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Professional Soldier is a 1935 American adventure film based on a 1931 story by Damon Runyon, "Gentlemen, the King!"[1] It stars Victor McLaglen and Freddie Bartholomew. The film was directed by Tay Garnett, and produced by Twentieth Century Fox.

A soldier of fortune is hired to kidnap a king, only to find the target is a young boy.

  1. ^ Runyon, Damon. "Gentlemen, the King!" Collier's. April 25, 1931.