Counsel for Crime
(1937)
★ 6.8 IMDb · 3 votes
Year: 1937
Runtime: 61 мин
Country: United States of America
Director: John Brahm
Cast: Otto Kruger, Дугласс Монтгомери, Julie Bishop, Thurston Hall, Nana Bryant, Gene Morgan, Марк Лоуренс, Robert Warwick, Stanley Fields
Plot
Otto Kruger once again plays a dynamic, bombastic attorney in Columbia's Counsel for Crime. Kruger plays William Mellon, a shifty shyster whose underhanded methods loses him the love of his sweetheart Anne (Nana Bryant), who subsequently marries a powerful senator (Thurston Hall). What Mellon doesn't know is that Anne has borne him a son, whom the senator has adopted. Reaching adulthood, Paul (Douglass Montgomery) opts for a legal career himself, taking a clerical job with his own father's firm. In typical "B"-picture, Mellon is charged with murdering one of his more odious clients -- and Paul is appointed prosecuting attorney in the case.