Release Date

23 Aug, 1939

Runtime

01:29: (HH:MM)

Synopsis

The Story of a Lovable, Humorous Politician..!

Lem Schofield, a lawyer in a one-time small-town turned industrialized big city, runs his firm on examples set by Abraham Lincoln and is a friend to the poor. Clay Clinton, his late partner's son joins the firm but is anxious for fast success and considers Schofield's old-fashioned principles antiquated. Being in love with Schofield's daughter and impatient for success he moves to offices supplied by the city's most powerful industrialist, J.T. Tapley, who has plans to use Clay's good family lineage as a stepping stone to political power. The unscrupulous Tapley precipitates a strike in his factory mill which causes a rupture between the former partners. Schofield sets out to bring Tapley and his political henchmen to justice.

Original Title

Our Leading Citizen

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Actors

Bob Burns

Susan Hayward

Joseph Allen

Elizabeth Patterson

Charles Bickford

Gene Lockhart

Kathleen Lockhart

Otto Hoffman

Clarence Kolb

Paul Guilfoyle

Fay Helm

Hattie Noel

Kathryn Sheldon

Monte Blue

Jim Kelso

Harry C. Bradley

Frances Morris

Thomas Louden

Olaf Hytten

Phil Dunham

Gus Glassmire

Crew

Alfred Santell

Irvin S. Cobb

Hugh Bennett

Jack Moffitt

Roland Anderson

Victor Milner

Russell Mathews

Hans Dreier

Gerard Carbonara

William LeBaron

George M. Arthur