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Shadow of the Law
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Shadow of the Law

Jun 6, 1930
1h 9m
★ 6.4

Two Women Want Him...One for His Money...One for His Love...And the Law Wants Him for Life!

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.

Genres

Crime
Drama
Mystery

Production Companies

Paramount Pictures

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Cast

William Powell

Jim Montgomery aka John Nelson

William Powell

Marion Shilling

Edith Wentworth

Marion Shilling

Natalie Moorhead

Ethel Barry aka Ethel George

Natalie Moorhead

Regis Toomey

Tom Owens

Regis Toomey

Paul Hurst

Pete Shore

Paul Hurst

George Irving

Colonel Wentworth

George Irving

Frederick Burt

Detective Lt. Mike Kearney

Frederick Burt

James Durkin

Prison Warden

James Durkin

Richard Tucker

Lew Durkin

Richard Tucker

Walter James

Captain of the Guards

Walter James

Sammy Blum

Undetermined Role

Sammy Blum

Allan Cavan

Juror

Allan Cavan

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