Counsel for Crime
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| Directed by | John Brahm |
| Screenplay by | Fred Niblo, Jr. Grace Neville Lee Loeb Harold Buchman |
| Produced by | Wallace MacDonald |
| Starring | Otto Kruger Douglass Montgomery Jacqueline Wells |
| Cinematography | Henry Freulich |
| Edited by | Otto Meyer |
| Music by | Morris Stoloff |
| Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
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Running time | 61 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Counsel for Crime is a 1937 American crime film directed by John Brahm starring Otto Kruger, Douglass Montgomery and Jacqueline Wells.[1]
Plot
Following his graduation from law school, Senator Robert Maddox's (Hall) adopted son Paul (Montgomery) is offered a job at Bill Mellon's (Kruger) law firm. Mellon, an unscrupulous criminal lawyer, is actually Paul's real father, but keeps the fact a secret from him. When Paul finds out about Mellon's corruption, he quits and gets a job as assistant district attorney. Soon after taking the position, Paul spearheads a state investigation into legal malpractice. This worries Mellon and prompts him to assign a crook to implicate those investigating him in a scandal. When the crook finds out the truth about Paul's birth he is accidentally shot by Mellon in an effort to conceal the information. Paul successfully prosecutes his own father, who is convicted of second-degree murder because he refused to discuss the content of the papers over which he and Mitchell were struggling, thus protecting Paul and his mother.
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