Name: Counsel for the Defense
Released: 1925
Cast: Jay Hunt, Betty Compson, House Peters, Rockliffe Fellowes, Emmett King

Cast & Crew

Film Details

Release Date

Dec 6, 1925

Premiere Information

not available

Distribution Company

Associated Exhibitors

Country

United States

Screenplay Information

Based on the novel Counsel for the Defense by Leroy Scott (New York, 1912).

Synopsis

Typhoid specialist Doc West has fought long and hard for the construction of the new municipal waterworks. Harrison Blake, the town's leading lawyer and banker, conspires to have the waterworks put into private hands and frames West for accepting a bribe. As none of the town's lawyers will take the case, Katherine, West's daughter and a recent law school graduate, accepts her first client in her father. The circumstantial evidence, however, is too great, and West is convicted and sent to jail. Blake bribes a worker to sabotage the waterworks, causing a public clamor for their takeover by private interests. Katherine, with the aid of newspaper editor Arnold Bruce, uncovers the conspiracy after the outbreak of a typhoid epidemic. West is freed, and Katherine weds Arnold.