The read
It runs a compact 1h 9m.
Synopsis
Jed Marlowe is a brilliant, scheming, unscrupulous criminal lawyer whose specialty is defending criminal he knows is guilty but gets them off through loop-holes or bribery. Then his daughter, misled by her father’s courtroom performance, but unaware of his back-room tactics, marries the killer her father has just unjustly save from the electric chair. What’s a poor father to do?
Ratings
IMDb6.2/10
4 audience votes
Key crew
- Thomas LennonScreenplay
- Joseph FieldsScreenplay
- Jack HivelyDirector
- Rex DunnOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Lee TracyJed Marlowe
- Barbara ReadJanet Marlowe
- Patric KnowlesTom Dixon
- Allan LaneSteve Kendall
- Linda HayesMiss Simpson
- Morgan ConwayMr. Carrington
- Robert Emmett KeaneJudge Butler, Second Trial
- Roy GordonThird Trial Judge
- Robert StrangeFirst Trial Judge
- Elliott SullivanHarry 'Ice Box' Swinnerty
- Leonid KinskeyHarry Beldon, Saxophone Player
- Stanley BlystoneCourt Clerk, Second Trial (uncredited)
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Themes
crooked lawyermurderb movie