Release Date

14 Oct, 1937

Runtime

01:01: (HH:MM)

Synopsis

One Word from Him... And Five Lives Are Doomed!

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.

Original Title

Counsel for Crime

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Actors

Otto Kruger

Douglass Montgomery

Julie Bishop

Thurston Hall

Nana Bryant

Gene Morgan

Marc Lawrence

Robert Warwick

Stanley Fields

Crew

John Brahm

Harold Shumate

Fred Niblo Jr.

Grace Neville

Lee Loeb

Harold Buchman