Vincent Day (Warren William) is a prosecutor who is on the fast track to success. When a man he zealously prosecuted all the way to the electric chair is found to have been innocent, he becomes distressed and quits his job. At the suggestion of a friendly bartender (Guy Kibbee), he decides to switch teams and become a defense attorney specializing in the representation of gangsters and other unsavory people. He will use any tactic to get his clients acquitted, up to and including drinking a slow-acting poison from a bottle of evidence to prove that the substance isn't lethal. The jury acquits the man not knowing that immediately after, Day rushes into a mob doctor's office for a pre-arranged stomach pump.
MPAA Rating: | NR |
Genre: | Drama |
Country: | United States |
Directed By: | James Flood, Elliott Nugent |
Written By: | Earl Baldwin, Joseph Jackson, Frank J. Collins |
Cast: | Mae Madison, William Janney, Willie Fung, Aline MacMahon, Ralph Ince, Morgan Wallace, Davison Clark, John Wray, Warren William, Hector V. Sarno, Murray Kinnell, Emerson Treacy, Selmer Jackson, Charles Lane, Polly Walters, Walter Walker, Sidney Fox, Noel Francis, Jack La Rue, Helena Phillips Evans, Guy Kibbee, Kenne Duncan, J. Carrol Naish, John Kelly, Paulette Goddard, Pedro Regas, Berton Churchill, Eric Wilton, Lew Harvey, Stanley Fields |
In Theaters: | May 07, 1932 |
Runtime: | 1 hour 26 minutes |
Production: | Warner Bros. |
Read More On: | Wikipedia |