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Our Leading Citizen (1939)

Our Leading Citizen (1939)

Drama Comedy

The Story of a Lovable, Humorous Politician..!

Release Date: 1939, August 23
Directors: Alfred Santell
Countries: United States of America
Production: Paramount Pictures
Cast: Russell Hicks, Paul Kruger, Kathryn Sheldon, Paul Guilfoyle, Helen Dickson, Frank O'Connor, Max Wagner, Monte Blue, Olaf Hytten, Phil Dunham, Peggy Leon, Harry Tenbrook

Overview:

Lem Schofield, a lawyer in a one-time small-town turned industrialized big city, runs his firm on examples set by Abraham Lincoln and is a friend to the poor. Clay Clinton, his late partner's son joins the firm but is anxious for fast success and considers Schofield's old-fashioned principles antiquated. Being in love with Schofield's daughter and impatient for success he moves to offices supplied by the city's most powerful industrialist, J.T. Tapley, who has plans to use Clay's good family lineage as a stepping stone to political power. The unscrupulous Tapley precipitates a strike in his factory mill which causes a rupture between the former partners. Schofield sets out to bring Tapley and his political henchmen to justice.

Keywords:

lawyer politician