The Great Defender

The Great Defender

He would have the truth - the whole truth and nothing but...

1934 · 68 min · ★ 4.6 · Drama, Mystery

Sir Douglas Rolls is a highly respected defence lawyer of many years experience. Now in rapidly failing health, he is advised to retreat from the courtroom and pursue more pleasurable activities. But it is just at this point in his life that his great lost love a woman his own strong sense of duty led him to give up twenty years ago, and whom he still loves deeply walks into his chambers to ask that he defend her adulterous husband, now to stand trial for murder. Reluctantly agreeing to take on the case, Sir Douglas soon finds there is more to the story than meets the eye.

Directed by Thomas Bentley · Written by John Hastings Turner

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Cast

Matheson Lang Sir Douglas Rolls
Margaret Bannerman Laura Locke
Arthur Margetson Leslie Locke
Sam Livesey Sir Henry Linguard
Jeanne Stuart Phyllis Ware
Richard Bird Eric Hammond
Frank Atkinson Pope
Robert Horton Doctor Hackett
Laurence Hanray Parker
J. Fisher White Judge
Kathleen Harrison Agnes Carter
O.B. Clarence Mr. Hammond

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