Shadow of the Law
“Two Women Want Him...One for His Money...One for His Love...And the Law Wants Him for Life!”
1930•NR•1h 9m•6.7•Released
CrimeDramaMystery
John Nelson, a well-to-do businessman, is escorting a woman he knows as Ethel Barry to the door of her apartment suite when a man steps out of the shadows and angrily demands to know where she has been. The embarrassed Nelson excuses himself and goes to his rooms in the same hotel. The woman rushes into his apartment followed by the man who met her in the hall. The man threatens her with violence and Nelson comes to her defense. In the ensuing fight, the man is knocked out of the window and falls to his death to the pavement many stories down. He is charged with the killing and his only witness that can prove self-defense for him has disappeared, and can not be found.
Director
Louis J. Gasnier
Writer
Max Marcin, John A. Moroso
Languages
English
Studio
Paramount Pictures
Cast
William Powell
Jim Montgomery aka John Nelson
Marion Shilling
Edith Wentworth
Natalie Moorhead
Ethel Barry aka Ethel George
Regis Toomey
Tom Owens
Paul Hurst
Pete Shore
George Irving
Colonel Wentworth
Frederick Burt
Detective Lt. Mike Kearney
James Durkin
Prison Warden
Richard Tucker
Lew Durkin
Walter James
Captain of the Guards
Sammy Blum
Undetermined Role
Allan Cavan
Juror
Edward LeSaint
Judge
Frank O'Connor
Undetermined Role
Broderick O'Farrell
Doctor
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