The Man Behind the Law
/
L'Avocat du diable
director:
John Brahm
playwright:
Lee Loeb
/
Harold Shumate
/
Fred Niblo Jr.
/
Harold Buchman
/
Grace Neville
actor:
Otto Kruger
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Douglass Montgomery
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Julie Bishop
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Thurston Hall
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Nana Bryant
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genre:
Romance
/
Crime
/
Drama
region:
United States
language:
English
length: 1h 1m
release date: 1937-10-14
IMDb: tt0028743
Overview
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.