Village Tale is a 1935 American drama film directed by John Cromwell and starring Randolph Scott, Kay Johnson, Arthur Hohl, and Robert Barrat.

The screenplay by Allan Scott was adapted from author and scenarist Phil Stong in his 1934 novel of the same name.

Produced by RKO Radio Pictures, it was released on May 10, 1935.

[2] “...about a small town and its dramas...described as a series of character studies rather than a plot.”[3] Film historians Raymond Durgnat and Scott Simmon offer this brief synopsis of Cromwell's adaption of novelist Phil Stong’s tale of rural life, starring Randolph Scott as Slaughter Somerville: “The vicious world of a third Phil Stong film, Village Tale, directed by John Cromwell in 1935, where a passel of the town’s old boys hang around the general store to concoct vengeful schemes they can only carry out as a mob…”[4] This 1930s drama film-related article is a stub.

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