Release Date

29 Jan, 1937

Runtime

01:12: (HH:MM)

Synopsis

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.

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Actors

Lee Tracy

Margot Grahame

Eduardo Ciannelli

Betty Lawford

Erik Rhodes

Frank M. Thomas

Wilfred Lucas

William Stack

Charles Lane

Aileen Pringle

Francis McDonald

Lita Chevret

Theodore von Eltz

Cyril Ring

Edward Van Sloan

William Worthington

Sidney Bracey

Crew

Edward Killy

Christy Cabanne

G.V. Atwater

Louis Stevens

Van Nest Polglase

Thomas Lennon

Cliff Reid

Jack Hively

Renié

Darrell Silvera

David Abel

John E. Tribby