Our Leading Citizen
Lem Schofield, a lawyer in a one-time small-town turned industrialized big city, runs his firm on examples set by Abraham Lincoln and is a friend to the poor. Clay Clinton, his late partner's son joins the firm but is anxious for fast success and considers Schofield's old-fashioned principles antiquated. Being in love with Schofield's daughter and impatient for success he moves to offices supplied by the city's most powerful industrialist, J.T. Tapley, who has plans to use Clay's good family lineage as a stepping stone to political power. The unscrupulous Tapley precipitates a strike in his factory mill which causes a rupture between the former partners. Schofield sets out to bring Tapley and his political henchmen to justice.
Year: 1939
Studio: Paramount Pictures
Director: Alfred Santell
Cast: Bob Burns, Susan Hayward, Joseph Allen, Elizabeth Patterson, Charles Bickford, Gene Lockhart
Crew: Alfred Santell (Director), Irvin S. Cobb (Story), Hugh Bennett (Editor), Jack Moffitt (Screenplay), Roland Anderson (Art Direction), Victor Milner (Director of Photography)
Runtime: 89 minutes
Release: Aug 23, 1939
IMDb: 8.00/10 by 2 users
Popularity: 1
Country: United States of America
Language: English
Budget: 0
Revenue: 0
Keyword : politician, lawyer
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