Directed by:
Edward BuzzellScreenplay:
Robert RiskinCinematography:
Ted TetzlaffCast:
Fay Wray, Gene Raymond, Claire Dodd, Claude Gillingwater, Frank Albertson, Jessie Ralph, Robert Barrat, Paul McVey, Dennis O'Keefe, Arthur Pierson (more)Plots(1)
Overwrought independent woman tale featuring Wray (fresh from her battle with KING KONG) as a female super-lawyer. She handles civil, corporate, and criminal law equally well. She intimidates experienced judges with her impressive knowledge of legalese. Her poor husband, a fumbling architect, feels completely impotent compared to his wife. He quits his nowhere job and becomes a nightclub singer. At his newfound place of employment, he gets involved with a shady lady who drinks herself to death, and he is accused of her murder. Guess who defends the poor sot. That's right, his wife the super-lawyer with a final, melodramatic summation of the case to the jury. (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
Fay Wray
Canada
Best movies:
King Kong (1933)
Murder by Death (1976) - a.f.
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925)
Gene Raymond
USA
Best movies:
The Name of the Game (1968) (series)
The Best Man (1964)
The Locket (1946)
Claire Dodd
USA
Best movies:
The Black Cat (1941)
Roberta (1935)
Footlight Parade (1933)
Claude Gillingwater
USA
Best movies:
Conquest (1937)
A Tale of Two Cities (1935)
Little Miss Broadway (1938)
Frank Albertson
USA
Best movies:
Psycho (1960)
It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
Fury (1936)
Jessie Ralph
USA
Best movies:
The Good Earth (1937)
After the Thin Man (1936)
Double Wedding (1937)
Robert Barrat
USA
Best movies:
The Keys of the Kingdom (1944)
The Last of the Mohicans (1936)
Captain Blood (1935)
Paul McVey
USA
Best movies:
Love Is News (1937)
Alexander's Ragtime Band (1938)
Come Back, Little Sheba (1952)
Dennis O'Keefe
USA
Best movies:
Producers' Showcase (1954) (series)
I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932)
Fury (1936)
Arthur Pierson
Norway
Best movies:
The Devil's Brother (1933)
Edward Keane
USA
Best movies:
It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
Edison, the Man (1940)
The Roaring Twenties (1939)
Edward Hearn
USA
Best movies:
Love Crazy (1941)
Edison, the Man (1940)
The General (1926)
Frank Conroy
UK
Best movies:
Love Is News (1937)
The Young Philadelphians (1959)
Manhattan Melodrama (1934)
Florence Wix
UK
Best movies:
Limelight (1952)
Fury (1936)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
Jack Luden
USA
Best movies:
Reap the Wild Wind (1942)
Anchors Aweigh (1945)
North West Mounted Police (1940)
Perry Ivins
USA
Best movies:
White Heat (1949)
Trouble in Paradise (1932)
The Great Sinner (1949)
Guy Usher
USA
Best movies:
Fury (1936)
After the Thin Man (1936)
Reap the Wild Wind (1942)
Libby Taylor
USA
Best movies:
Broadway Melody of 1940 (1940)
Libeled Lady (1936)
The Great Ziegfeld (1936)
Leonard Carey
UK
Best movies:
Gaslight (1944)
Strangers on a Train (1951)
Rebecca (1940)
Grace Goodall
USA
Best movies:
When Tomorrow Comes (1939)
Bluebeard's Eighth Wife (1938)
Conquest (1937)