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Overview
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Frank J. Collins (play)
Walter DeLeon (screenplay) ...
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Release Date:
16 July 1940 (USA) more
Tagline:
Nothing On Earth Could Seal His Lips more
Plot:
Assistant District Attorney Stephen Forbes, an impressive orator with a long list of convictions, resigns... more | add synopsis
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Another simplistic attack on the legal profession. more (3 total)
Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | George Brent | ... | Stephen M. 'Steve' Forbes |
| Virginia Bruce | ... | Joan Reed, Forbes' secretary |
 | Brenda Marshall | ... | Celia Farrady |
| Richard Barthelmess | ... | J.B. Roscoe |
| William Lundigan | ... | John L. 'Johnny' Forbes |
| George Tobias | ... | Slug McNutt |
| John Litel | ... | District Attorney Dickson |
| Henry Armetta | ... | Tony Spirella |
| Alan Baxter | ... | Joe Garland |
| David Bruce | ... | Gerald Wilson |
| Clarence Kolb | ... | E.A. Smith |
| Louis Jean Heydt | ... | Barton |
| Marc Lawrence | ... | Lefty Kyler |
| Edwin Stanley | ... | District Attorney Dan Nelson (as Ed Stanley) |
| Kay Sutton | ... | Mrs. Knight (scenes deleted) |
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Broadway Lawyer
The Sentence
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76 min
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1.37 : 1 more
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Mono (RCA Sound System)
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USA:Approved (PCA #6277) | USA:TV-G (TV rating) | Australia:G
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Another film based on a fictionalized account of the life and legend of lawyer William Fallon, the famous Great Mouthpiece of the roaring 20s. more
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As much as Americans express pride in their political and legal system, it is also true that they hold politicians and attorneys in very low esteem. The popular perception of lawyers as unethical and devious is not new and here it permeates this modest 1940 feature. What George Brent does on the screen has little connection to reality (there is one particularly silly scene in which he grandstands by ingesting poison during a murder trial), but sets the stage for his reformation and a happy ending.
The movie flies by so it may be worth 76 minutes of a viewer's time as a reminder of Hollywood's long-standing tradition of disparaging the legal profession.