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Counsel for the Defense

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Calorie Rating: 98
Released: 1925-12-06
Running Time: 70 Minutes
Studios: Burton King Productions,


Typhus specialist Dr. David West has fought long and hard for the construction of the new municipal waterworks. Harrison Blake, the town's leading lawyer and banker, conspires to have the waterworks put into private hands and frames David for accepting a bribe. As none of the town's lawyers will take the case, Katherine, David's daughter and a recent law school graduate, accepts her first client in her father. However, the circumstantial evidence is too great and David is convicted. Harrison bribes a worker to sabotage the waterworks, causing a public clamor for their takeover by private interests. Katherine, with the aid of newspaper editor Arnold Bruce, uncovers the conspiracy after the outbreak of a typhus epidemic. David is freed, and Katherine weds Arnold.

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Cast

Jay Hunt
Character: Doc West
Betty Compson
Character: Katherine West
House Peters
Character: Arnold Bruce

Rockliffe Fellowes
Character: Harrison Blake
Emmett King
Character: Harvey Sherman
Bernard Randall
Character: Stephen Marcy

George MacDonald
Character: Hosea Hollingsworth
William Conklin
Character: Thomas Burke
Joan Standing
Character: Printer's Devil


Production and Crew


George Porter
Cinematography
Ned Van Buren
Cinematography