Counsel's Opinion

Counsel's Opinion (1933)

Divorce barrister Logan arrives back in London from a trip overseas to find the whole city fogbound. Unable to reach his flat, he books into the exclusive Royal Parks Hotel. Leslie sweet-talks Logan into letting her stay in his suite, and although the pair are attracted to each other, the night passes innocently. On arriving at Chambers, Logan is asked to act as counsel for Lord Rockburn, who is seeking a divorce from his wife. Logan accepts the brief, but then discovers to his horror that Lady Rockburn was a guest at the Royal Parks Hotel ball the previous night, and a cornerstone of the case is alleged impropriety after a maid observed a man leaving her room that morning......

Date of release
1933-03-01
TMDB
9.0 / 10 (1)
Runtime
1h 16m
Genres
Comedy
Director
Allan Dwan

Casting

Interesting facts

Counsel's Opinion is a lost 1933 British romantic comedy film directed by Allan Dwan and starring Henry Kendall and Binnie Barnes. it was written by Arthur Wimperis and Dorothy Greenhill based on a 1931 play by Gilbert Wakefield. It was one of three films directed in Britain in the early 1930s by Dwan and was an early production from Alexander Korda's London Films. It was remade in 1938 as The Divorce of Lady X.

Production

Details in the survising press book for the film suggest that Counsel's Opinion had a generous budget and relatively high production values for a British film of the early 1930s, with permission being obtained for location filming in London's Middle Temple.

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