Friday, December 6, 2013

Attorney for the Defense (1932)

Columbia Pictures
Directed by Irving Cummings
My rating: 2.5 stars out of 4
IMDb
(Sony Movie Channel)

After lawyer Edmund Lowe sends an innocent man to the electric chair (Dwight Frye in a brief appearance), he changes his ways and befriends the man's wife and child. Years later, the boy apparently commits murder in a drunken rage, but Lowe takes the rap. He defends himself in a long trial, but in a late twist ends up exposing the real murderer. Not bad for the time, but Lowe can be stiff and the trial goes on far too long.

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