Attorney for the Defense
- IMDb link: 0022644
- IMDb rating: 6.5 (208 votes) Search
- Genres: Crime, Drama
- Director: Irving Cummings
- Cast: Edmund Lowe, Evelyn Brent, Constance Cummings, Don Dillaway and others
- Release date: 21 May 1932
- Release year: 1932
- Runtime: 70 minutes
- Country: United States
- Keywords: b movie, double feature film, defense attorney, prosecution attorney, innocent man unjustly sentenced to execution, injustice, trial judge, newspaper story, frame up, prison warden
Plot
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An ambitious lawyer uses circumstantial evidence to help convict an innocent man then tries to make amends with his family.
Burton is a brilliant, albeit self-seeking prosecution attorney who, having sent an innocent man, Wallace (Dwight Frye), to his death is filled with remorse and resigns and becomes a crusading defense attorney. He soon finds himself defending himself of a false murder charge.
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