The Great Defender

Nov 26, 1934

1h 8m

★ 4.2

He would have the truth - the whole truth and nothing but...

Overview

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.

Genres

Drama

Mystery

Production Companies

BIF

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Cast

Sir Douglas Rolls

Matheson Lang

Laura Locke

Margaret Bannerman

Leslie Locke

Arthur Margetson

Sir Henry Linguard

Sam Livesey

Phyllis Ware

Jeanne Stuart

Eric Hammond

Richard Bird

Pope

Frank Atkinson

Doctor Hackett

Robert Horton

Parker

Laurence Hanray

Judge

J. Fisher White

Agnes Carter

Kathleen Harrison

Mr. Hammond

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