Disbarred
Cast & Crew
Robert Florey
Gail Patrick
Robert Preston
Otto Kruger
Sidney Toler
Helen Mackellar
Film Details
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Synopsis
Vice investigator Curron is killed in his garage when a bomb detonates, a crime arranged by racketeer G. L. "Mardy" Mardeen. The evidence Curron had gathered is burned by Mardy's lawyer, Tyler Cradon. Because of suspicions surrounding Cradon, he is disbarred, a punishment he regards lightly, as his crimes merit much worse. After Cradon flies off for a Western vacation, his airplane lands in the town of Glenby for repairs. The town is in the throes of a murder trial, and Cradon is impressed with the successful defense lawyer, Joan Carroll. Introducing himself as Jim Thomas, he has her set up in the law office of his former associate, Roberts, who is there to become the "mouthpiece" for their crooked clients. Soon Joan begins to worry about all the criminals she has helped to acquit and doubts such coached witnesses as Miss Rita La Rue. Meanwhile, Mardy tries to take over Cradon's new operation. Assistant District Attorney Bradley Kent, who is attracted to Joan but is always her adversary in court, asks her out and urges her to give up the law. Cradon makes the same suggestion, and asks her to marry him even though he does not love her. Joan rejects the two men on both requests, but does leave Roberts' firm to join the District Attorney's office. Realizing that his men who are coming up for trial are in danger, Mardy first tries to blackmail Cradon, then goes to the District Attorney but is shot by Cradon before making a deal. Joan visits Cradon to ask if Roberts might be a criminal, and overhears a conversation revealing the true state of affairs. The District Attorney arrives and arrests Cradon, Roberts, and the gang, then leads Kent and Joan toward the marriage license bureau.
Director
Robert Florey
Cast
Gail Patrick
Robert Preston
Otto Kruger
Sidney Toler
Helen Mackellar
Virginia Dabney
Edward Marr
Charles D. Brown
Clay Clement
Frank M. Thomas
Harry Worth
John Hart
Jack Knoche
Ruth Robinson
Dorothy Howe
Philip Warren
Sheila Darcy
Murdock Mac Quarrie
Ed Cecil
Pop Byron
Henry Roquemore
Robert Frazer
Archie Twitchell
Bert Roach
Brady Kline
Jim Pierce
Wheaton Chambers
Howard Mitchell
Edward J. Le Saint
Guy Usher
Kate Drain Lawson
Stanley Blystone
Harry Tyler
Joyce Mathews
Dick Elliott
Fritzi Brunette
Hal K. Dawson
Paul Newlan
Robert Elliott
Paul Weigel
Harry Bailey
Paul Fix
Eddie Holden
Pat West
Gwen Kenyon
Dolores Casey
Janet Waldo
Luana Walters
Ruth Rogers
Olin Howland
Crew
John Cope
Hans Dreier
Bill Faralla
Harry Fischbeck
W. Flannery
A. E. Freudeman
Lillie Hayward
Edith Head
William Lebaron
Gene Merritt
Boris Morros
Robert R. Presnell
Harry Sauber
Arthur Schmidt
Stuart Walker
Film Details
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Immediately following the film's opening credits is a foreword containing a statement by FBI Chief J. Edgar Hoover, in which he asserts that crooked lawyers deserve the same punishment as their clients. The character of "Tyler Craden" (as it was later spelled) appeared in Paramount's 1940 picture Parole Fixer, this time played by Paul McGrath .
