Counsel for Crime

• Movies
• 1937-10-14
• EN
• Released
• 1h 1m
• US
• Romance - Crime - Drama

• 5.8
• 2

Production

Columbia Pictures

Tagline

One Word from Him... And Five Lives Are Doomed!

Storyline

Otto Kruger once again plays a dynamic, bombastic attorney in Columbia's Counsel for Crime. Kruger plays William Mellon, a shifty shyster whose underhanded methods loses him the love of his sweetheart Anne (Nana Bryant), who subsequently marries a powerful senator (Thurston Hall). What Mellon doesn't know is that Anne has borne him a son, whom the senator has adopted. Reaching adulthood, Paul (Douglass Montgomery) opts for a legal career himself, taking a clerical job with his own father's firm. In typical "B"-picture, Mellon is charged with murdering one of his more odious clients -- and Paul is appointed prosecuting attorney in the case.