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Criminal Lawyer

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Calorie Rating: 101
Released: 1937-01-29
Running Time: 72 Minutes
Studios: RKO Radio Pictures,


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.

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Cast

Lee Tracy
Character: Brandon
Margot Grahame
Character: Madge Carter
Eduardo Ciannelli
Character: Gene Larkin

Betty Lawford
Character: Betty Walker
Erik Rhodes
Character: Tony Bandini
Frank M. Thomas
Character: William Walker

Wilfred Lucas
Character: Brandon's Assistant
William Stack
Character: District Attorney Hopkins
Charles Lane
Character: Attorney (uncredited)

Aileen Pringle
Character: Mrs. Manning (uncredited)
Francis McDonald
Character: Jack 'Fingy' Doremus (uncredited)
Lita Chevret
Character: Nora James (uncredited)

Theodore von Eltz
Character: Larkin's Attorney (uncredited)
Cyril Ring
Character: Extra at Larkin's Nightclub (uncredited)
Edward Van Sloan
Character: Bit (uncredited)

William Worthington
Character: Party Guest (uncredited)
Sidney Bracey
Character: Wilson - Walker's Butler (uncredited)


Production and Crew

G.V. Atwater
Screenplay
Van Nest Polglase
Art Direction

Thomas Lennon
Screenplay
Cliff Reid
Associate Producer

ReniƩ
Costume Design
Darrell Silvera
Set Dressing Artist
David Abel
Director of Photography

John E. Tribby
Sound Recordist