An ambitious lawyer uses circumstantial evidence to help convict an innocent man then tries to make amends with his family.An ambitious lawyer uses circumstantial evidence to help convict an innocent man then tries to make amends with his family.An ambitious lawyer uses circumstantial evidence to help convict an innocent man then tries to make amends with his family.
Don Dillaway
- Paul Wallace
- (as Donald Dillaway)
Oscar Apfel
- Managing Editor
- (uncredited)
Bess Flowers
- Telephone Operator
- (uncredited)
Eddie Foster
- Man Betting with Malone
- (uncredited)
Sherry Hall
- Reporter
- (uncredited)
Eddie Kane
- Abe Steiner
- (uncredited)
Pat O'Malley
- Dr. Strong
- (uncredited)
Lee Phelps
- Radio Test Man
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaEdmund Lowe, looking out the window at an outside corridor of the court building, says he is looking at "the Bridge of Sighs," and says that he sent many men across it with "a one-way ticket to the Big House." The reference is to the Doge's Palace in Venice, where trials were held, and which was separated from the cells by such a corridor. In "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage," Byron says, "I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs,/A palace and a prison on each hand."
- GoofsEdmund Lowe's secretary has been in the job at least ten years, since Lowe was District Attorney, and says she is under 30. (When the film was made, she was 22, and looks it.) She therefore would not have been old enough to be secretary to the District Attorney ten years before.
- Quotes
Val Lorraine: Anyway, it'd ruin my chances to marry the man from Dubuque.
Burton: Grand Rapids.
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Crisp courtroom drama starring Edmund Lowe...
Obviously a short programmer for the bottom half of a double feature bill, ATTORNEY FOR THE DEFENSE is a good melodrama from Columbia starring EDMUND LOWE. He's a lawyer who lets himself be accused of a crime so he can play his own defense lawyer to prove who is really guilty of the murder.
His charming secretary is played by CONSTANCE CUMMINGS, an attractive blonde who encourages him to solve the murder by playing the defense lawyer for a change.
DWIGHT FRYE has a melodramatic courtroom moment at the film's start, as an innocent man unable to prove his innocence in a court of law. EVELYN BRENT and DOUGLAS HAIG are good in strong supporting roles.
Trivia note: The first radio broadcast of a trial is mentioned in this film from '32, as is the word "television" several times. An early indication of things to come.
His charming secretary is played by CONSTANCE CUMMINGS, an attractive blonde who encourages him to solve the murder by playing the defense lawyer for a change.
DWIGHT FRYE has a melodramatic courtroom moment at the film's start, as an innocent man unable to prove his innocence in a court of law. EVELYN BRENT and DOUGLAS HAIG are good in strong supporting roles.
Trivia note: The first radio broadcast of a trial is mentioned in this film from '32, as is the word "television" several times. An early indication of things to come.
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- Jul 9, 2009
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- Runtime1 hour 10 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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By what name was Attorney for the Defense (1932) officially released in Canada in English?
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