Criminal Lawyer (1937)

Criminal Lawyer
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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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Cast

Charles Lane
as Attorney (uncredited)
Erik Rhodes
as Tony Bandini
Lee Tracy
as Brandon
Francis McDonald
as Jack 'Fingy' Doremus (uncredited)
Wilfred Lucas
as Brandon's Assistant
Eduardo Ciannelli
as Gene Larkin
Cyril Ring
as Extra at Larkin's Nightclub (uncredited)
Sidney Bracey
as Wilson - Walker's Butler (uncredited)
Margot Grahame
as Madge Carter
Edward Van Sloan
as Bit (uncredited)
Frank M. Thomas
as William Walker
Betty Lawford
as Betty Walker
William Stack
as District Attorney Hopkins
Theodore von Eltz
as Larkin's Attorney (uncredited)
Lita Chevret
as Nora James (uncredited)
Aileen Pringle
as Mrs. Manning (uncredited)
William Worthington
as Party Guest (uncredited)

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