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Criminal Lawyer (1937)

ALL 01/29/1937 (en) Action, Romance, Drama, Crime 72 Min
  • Release
    01/29/1937
  • Production
    RKO Radio Pictures
  • Rotten tomato
    59%
  • Original title
    Criminal Lawyer
  • Original language
    en
  • Production Cost
  • 0.00
    -

Overview

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.

  3. Jack Hively

    Editor

  4. Producer



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  1. Lee Tracy

    Brandon

  2. Margot Grahame

    Madge Carter

  3. Eduardo Ciannelli

    Gene Larkin

  4. Betty Lawford

    Betty Walker

  5. Erik Rhodes

    Tony Bandini

  6. Frank M. Thomas

    William Walker

  7. Wilfred Lucas

    Brandon's Assistant

  8. William Stack

    District Attorney Hopkins

  9. Charles Lane

    Attorney (uncredited)

  10. Aileen Pringle

    Mrs. Manning (uncredited)

  11. Francis McDonald

    Jack 'Fingy' Doremus (uncredited)

  12. Lita Chevret

    Nora James (uncredited)

  13. Theodore von Eltz

    Larkin's Attorney (uncredited)

  14. Cyril Ring

    Extra at Larkin's Nightclub (uncredited)

  15. Edward Van Sloan

    Bit (uncredited)

  16. William Worthington

    Party Guest (uncredited)

  17. Sidney Bracey

    Wilson - Walker's Butler (uncredited)

Full Cast & Crew

Casts : 17 , Crews : 12

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Criminal Lawyer (1937) 72 Min

ALL 01/29/1937 (en)
Action, Romance, Drama, Crime
  • Release 01/29/1937
  • Production
    RKO Radio Pictures
  • Original title Criminal Lawyer
  • en
  • Revenue0.00

Overview

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.

  1. Christy Cabanne, Edward Killy

    Director

  2. Louis Stevens

    Story

  3. Jack Hively

    Editor

  4. Producer



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