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Guilty Hands is a american film of genre Drama directed by Lionel Barrymore released in USA on 22 august 1931 with Kay Francis
Guilty Hands (1931)
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Add to a movie listGuilty Hands is a 1931 American Pre-Code crime film starring Lionel Barrymore, Kay Francis and Madge Evans and directed by W. S. Van Dyke, with uncredited assistance from Barrymore. The story concerns an attorney who murders a man who wants to marry his daughter.
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On a train trip, lawyer Richard Grant (Lionel Barrymore) tells fellow passengers that, based on his long experience both prosecuting and defending murder cases, murder is sometimes justified and a clever man should be able to commit it undetected. He is traveling to the isolated estate of his wealthy client and friend, Gordon Rich (Alan Mowbray); his young adult daughter Barbara (Madge Evans) is also arriving there.Actors
Kay Francis
(Marjorie West)
Lionel Barrymore
(Richard Grant)
Madge Evans
(Barbara 'Babs' Grant)
William Bakewell
(Tommy Osgood)
C. Aubrey Smith
(Reverend Hastings)
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