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Jed Marlowe is a brilliant, scheming, unscrupulous criminal lawyer whose specialty is defending criminal he knows is guilty but gets them off through loop-holes or bribery. Then his daughter, misled by her father’s courtroom performance, but unaware of his back-room tactics, marries the killer her father has just unjustly save from the electric chair. What’s a poor father to do?
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Jul 28, 1939
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RKO Radio Pictures
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Full credits →L
Lee Tracy
Jed Marlowe
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Barbara Read
Janet Marlowe
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Patric Knowles
Tom Dixon
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Allan Lane
Steve Kendall
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Linda Hayes
Miss Simpson
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Morgan Conway
Mr. Carrington
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Robert Emmett Keane
Judge Butler, Second Trial
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Roy Gordon
Third Trial Judge
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Robert Strange
First Trial Judge
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Elliott Sullivan
Harry 'Ice Box' Swinnerty
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Leonid Kinskey
Harry Beldon, Saxophone Player
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Stanley Blystone
Court Clerk, Second Trial (uncredited)
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Paul E. Burns
Hotel Clerk (uncredited)
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Chester Clute
Dr. Hillary Schunk (uncredited)
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Chester Conklin
Courtroom Extra (uncredited)
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Clyde Dilson
Duffy, Second Trial Bailiff (uncredited)
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Julia Faye
Courtroom Extra (uncredited)
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Bess Flowers
Nightclub Extra (uncredited)
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Byron Foulger
J.J. Henkins, Auditor (uncredited)
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Edward Gargan
Tom, Taxi Driver (uncredited)
