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Counsel for Crime (1937)
Directed by John Brahm
Overview
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.
Rated NR | Length 61 minutes
Actors
Marc Lawrence | Otto Kruger | Stanley Fields | Robert Warwick | Thurston Hall | Julie Bishop | Nana Bryant | Douglass Montgomery | Gene Morgan