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Counsel for Crime is a american film of genre Drama directed by John Brahm released in USA on 14 october 1937 with Otto Kruger

Counsel for Crime (1937)

Counsel for Crime
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Released in USA 14 october 1937
Length 1h1
Directed by
OriginUSA
Genres Drama,    Crime,    Romance
Rating70% 3.512373.512373.512373.512373.51237

Counsel for Crime is a 1937 American crime film directed by John Brahm starring Otto Kruger, Douglass Montgomery and Jacqueline Wells.

Synopsis

Following his graduation from law school, Senator Robert Maddox's (Hall) adopted son Paul (Montgomery) is offered a job at Bill Mellon's (Kruger) law firm. Mellon, an unscrupulous criminal lawyer, is actually Paul's real father, but keeps the fact a secret from him. When Paul finds out about Mellon's corruption, he quits and gets a job as assistant district attorney. Soon after taking the position, Paul spearheads a state investigation into legal malpractice. This worries Mellon and prompts him to assign a crook to implicate those investigating him in a scandal. When the crook finds out the truth about Paul's birth he is accidentally shot by Mellon in an effort to conceal the information. Paul successfully prosecutes his own father, who is convicted of second-degree murder because he refused to discuss the content of the papers over which he and Mitchell were struggling, thus protecting Paul and his mother.

Actors

Otto Kruger

(William Mellon)Douglass Montgomery

(Paul Maddox)Julie Bishop

(Ann McIntyre (as Jacqueline Wells))Thurston Hall

(Sen. Maddox)Nana Bryant

(Mrs. Maddox)
And :
Gene Morgan
Marc Lawrence
Robert Warwick
Stanley Fields
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