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Counsel for Crime (1937)

Counsel for Crime (1937)

Drama Crime Romance

One Word from Him... And Five Lives Are Doomed!

Release Date: 1937, October 14
Directors: John Brahm
Countries: United States of America
Production: Columbia Pictures
Cast: Marc Lawrence, Otto Kruger, Julie Bishop, Thurston Hall, Gene Morgan, Douglass Montgomery, Robert Warwick, Nana Bryant, Stanley Fields

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.

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