Criminal Lawyer
"The famous trials!... tricks!... fixes!.. of the smartest mouthpiece of them all !"
A drunken attorney tries to sober up in order to defend a friend in murder case.
"The famous trials!... tricks!... fixes!.. of the smartest mouthpiece of them all !"
A drunken attorney tries to sober up in order to defend a friend in murder case.
Pat O'Brien
James 'Jimmy' Regan
Jane Wyatt
Maggie Powell
Carl Benton Reid
Tucker Bourne
Mary Castle
Gloria Lydendecker
Robert Shayne
Clark Sommers
Mike Mazurki
'Moose' Hendricks
Jerome Cowan
Walter Medford
Marvin Kaplan
Sam Kutler
Douglas Fowley
Harry Cheney
A drunken attorney tries to sober up in order to defend a friend in murder case.
A hugely successful DA goes into private practice after sending a man to the chair -- only to find out later he was innocent. Now the drunken attorney only seems to represent criminals and low lifes.
District Attorney Tom Logan is set for higher office, at least until he becomes involved with defence lawyer Laura Kelly and her unpredictable client Chelsea Deardon. It seems the least of Chelsea's crimes is the theft of a very valuable painting, but as the women persuade Logan to investigate further and to cut some official corners, a much more sinister scenario starts to emerge.
A brash young lawyer takes a short-term, high-paying job as bodyguard for a slick business exec being threatened by a former partner, and quickly realizes he may be in over his head.
Cleve Marshall, an assistant district attorney, falls for Thelma Jordon, a mysterious woman with a troubled past. When Thelma becomes a suspect in her aunt's murder, Cleve tries to clear her name.
A falsely convicted man's wife, Catherine, and an alcoholic composer and pianist, Martin, team up in an attempt to clear her husband of the murder of a blonde singer, who is Martin's wife.
An attorney defends a hoodlum of murder, using the oppressiveness of the slums to appeal to the court.
A spectacular heist starts to unravel as the crooks take it on the lam.
After a former model is drowned in her bathtub, Detective James Halloran and Lieutenant Dan Muldoon attempt to piece together her murder.
After being framed for a policeman's murder, a criminal escapes prison and sets out for revenge.
Slick lawyer Thomas Farrell has made a career of defending mobsters in trials. It's not until he meets a lovely showgirl at a mob party that he realizes that there's more to life than winning trials. Farrell tries to quit the racket, but mob boss Rico Angelo threatens to hurt the showgirl if Farrell leaves him.