Counsel for Crime (1937)
One Word from Him... And Five Lives Are Doomed!
61 min
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.
- Release date
- October 14, 1937
- Country of origin
- United States
Cast
- Otto Kruger as William Mellon
- Douglass Montgomery as Paul Maddox
- Julie Bishop as Ann McIntyre
- Thurston Hall as Sen. Maddox
- Nana Bryant as Mrs. Maddox
- Gene Morgan as Friday
- Marc Lawrence as Edwin Mitchell
- Robert Warwick as Asa Stewart
- Stanley Fields as George Evans
- Michael Breen as Minor Role
Crew
- John Brahm · Director
- Harold Shumate · Writer
- Fred Niblo Jr. · Writer
- Grace Neville · Writer
- Lee Loeb · Writer
- Wallace MacDonald · Producer
- Henry Freulich · Cinematographer
- Otto Meyer · Editor