The Great Defender (1934)
He would have the truth - the whole truth and nothing but...
Sir Douglas Rolls is a highly respected defence lawyer of many years experience. Now in rapidly failing health, he is advised to retreat from the courtroom and pursue more pleasurable activities. But it is just at this point in his life that his great lost love a woman his own strong sense of duty led him to give up twenty years ago, and whom he still loves deeply walks into his chambers to ask that he defend her adulterous husband, now to stand trial for murder. Reluctantly agreeing to take on the case, Sir Douglas soon finds there is more to the story than meets the eye.
- Date of release
- 1934-11-26
- TMDB
- 4.6 / 10 (7)
- Runtime
- 1h 8m
- Genres
- Drama, Mystery
- Director
- Thomas Bentley
Casting
- Matheson Lang — Sir Douglas Rolls
- Margaret Bannerman — Laura Locke
- Arthur Margetson — Leslie Locke
- Sam Livesey — Sir Henry Linguard
- Jeanne Stuart — Phyllis Ware
- Richard Bird — Eric Hammond
- Frank Atkinson — Pope
- Robert Horton — Doctor Hackett
- Laurence Hanray — Parker
- J. Fisher White — Judge
- Kathleen Harrison — Agnes Carter
- O.B. Clarence — Mr. Hammond
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