Counsel for Crime

Counsel for Crime

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

NR 1937 · 61 min · ★ 6.8 · Romance, Crime, Drama

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.

Directed by John Brahm · Written by Harold Shumate

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Otto Kruger William Mellon
Douglass Montgomery Paul Maddox
Julie Bishop Ann McIntyre (as Jacqueline Wells)
Thurston Hall Sen. Maddox
Nana Bryant Mrs. Maddox
Gene Morgan Friday
Marc Lawrence Edwin Mitchell
Robert Warwick Asa Stewart
Stanley Fields George Evans

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