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Criminal Lawyer

5.9 72 mins Action   Romance   Drama   Crime   1937
RKO Radio Pictures  
Director(s): Edward Killy Christy Cabanne

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.

Casts of Criminal Lawyer

Lee Tracy

as Brandon

Margot Grahame

as Madge Carter

Eduardo Ciannelli

as Gene Larkin

Betty Lawford

as Betty Walker

Erik Rhodes

as Tony Bandini

Frank M. Thomas

as William Walker

Wilfred Lucas

as Brandon's Assistant

William Stack

as District Attorney Hopkins

Charles Lane

as Attorney (uncredited)

Aileen Pringle

as Mrs. Manning (uncredited)

Francis McDonald

as Jack 'Fingy' Doremus (uncredited)

Lita Chevret

as Nora James (uncredited)

Theodore von Eltz

as Larkin's Attorney (uncredited)

Cyril Ring

as Extra at Larkin's Nightclub (uncredited)

Edward Van Sloan

as Bit (uncredited)

William Worthington

as Party Guest (uncredited)

Sidney Bracey

as Wilson - Walker's Butler (uncredited)

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