Criminal Lawyer (1937)

Özet

Barry Brandon, a criminal lawyer, visits the night club of Denny Larkin, his primary client, with Betty Walker, a spoiled society girl. The police raid the club and Brandon pleads that the whole group is guilty, just to get even with Larkin for a rebuke. On the same night in court, Madge Carter is on trial for disorderly conduct, and Brandon volunteers to defend her, and proves the case against her if a frame-up. Finding that she is penniless, Brandon hires her as his secretary, and falls in love with her. Brandon is appointed district attorney and has ambitions of becoming the state governor. Having dinner at Betty's home, she maneuvers him, while he is drunk, into marrying her. Later, Madge is a witness when Larkin shoots down a fellow gangster. By threatening Brandon's life, he forces her to commit perjury at his trial, and say he fired in self-defense. Brandon, the prosecuting attorney (who has had his marriage to Betty annulled) knows she is lying but doesn't know why.

Oyuncular

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  Lee Tracy

  Brandon

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  Margot Grahame

  Madge Carter

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  Eduardo Ciannelli

  Gene Larkin

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  Betty Lawford

  Betty Walker

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  Erik Rhodes

  Tony Bandini

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  Frank M. Thomas

  William Walker

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  Wilfred Lucas

  Brandon's Assistant

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  William Stack

  District Attorney Hopkins

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  Charles Lane

  Attorney (uncredited)

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  Aileen Pringle

  Mrs. Manning (uncredited)

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  Francis McDonald

  Jack 'Fingy' Doremus (uncredited)

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  Lita Chevret

  Nora James (uncredited)

Ekip

Yönetmen

Edward Killy, Christy Cabanne

Senaryo

Thomas Lennon, G.V. Atwater

Hikâye / Eser

Louis Stevens

Görüntü yönetmeni

David Abel

Kurgu

Jack Hively