
Film
Shadow of the Law
1930 · 1h 9m · Crime · Drama · Mystery
Two Women Want Him...One for His Money...One for His Love...And the Law Wants Him for Life!
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Overview
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.
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

Edward Peil Sr.
Usher
Crew
- Louis J. GasnierDirector
- Max MarcinWriter
- John A. MorosoWriter
Media
Details
- Release date
- June 6, 1930
- Status
- Released
- Original language
- English
- Runtime
- 1h 9m
- Rated
- NR
- Genres
- Crime, Drama, Mystery
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