Defenders of the Law (1931)
"Defenders of the Law" is one of the greatest gangsters pictures of the year!
64 min
A gang of racketeers, with the aid of a high-ranking city official has control of a big-city, and the police plant an undercover cop to gather evidence against the hoodlums - except the police keep telling the wrong person what they are up to.
- Release date
- May 24, 1931
- Country of origin
- United States
Cast
- Catherine Dale Owen as Alice Randall
- John Holland as Police Captain Bill Houston
- Robert Gleckler as Joe Velet aka Phil Terry
- Edmund Breese as Police Commander Randall
- Mae Busch as Mae Ward - Undercover Policewoman
- Paul Panzer as Taroni - Gang Leader
- Kit Guard as Kit - Velet's Chief Henchman
- Joseph W. Girard as The Police Chief
- Philo McCullough as Detecteive Tom Muldoon
- Al Cooke as Cookie - the Photographer
Crew
- Joseph Levering · Director
- Hampton Del Ruth · Writer
- Louis E. Heifetz · Writer
- James S. Brown Jr. · Cinematographer
- Dwight Caldwell · Editor