Law school graduate Paul Maddox, adopted son of Senator Robert Maddox, accepts an offer to join the law firm of William "Bill" Mellon, brilliant but unscrupulous criminal attorney. Mrs. ...
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The "Good Girls" star thought she would be a better criminal than her character, until an innocent acting choice proved her otherwise.
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| Otto Kruger | ... | William Mellon | |
| Douglass Montgomery | ... | Paul Maddox | |
| Julie Bishop | ... | Ann McIntyre (as Jacqueline Wells) | |
| Thurston Hall | ... | Sen. Maddox | |
| Nana Bryant | ... | Mrs. Maddox | |
| Gene Morgan | ... | Friday | |
| Marc Lawrence | ... | Edwin Mitchell | |
| Robert Warwick | ... | Asa Stewart | |
| Stanley Fields | ... | George Evans | |
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Law school graduate Paul Maddox, adopted son of Senator Robert Maddox, accepts an offer to join the law firm of William "Bill" Mellon, brilliant but unscrupulous criminal attorney. Mrs. Maddox is actually Paul's real mother, although neither the Senator nor Paul know it, and Bill Mellon is his father. Yes, it is one of "those" plots. Paul is at first critical of Mellon's sharp practices, but he relents when Ann McItyre convinces him it's all within the law, a fact most law school graduates would have learned in law school. Gambler Georgie Evans comes to Mellon and tells him he has just killed Harrison, another underworld character, and insists it was in self defense. Mellon coaches Evans in how to tell his story to the police, then sends him to police headquarters to give himself up, and then assigns Paul to follow up on the case. While Evans and Paul are on separate routes to the police station, Evans stops by Harrison's and kills him under circumstances corresponding with Mellon's ... Written by Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>
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