Shadow of the Law (1930)
Synopsis
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.
Release Date: 1930-06-06
Runtime: 69 minutes
Director: Louis J. Gasnier
Top Cast
- William Powell as Jim Montgomery aka John Nelson
- Marion Shilling as Edith Wentworth
- Natalie Moorhead as Ethel Barry aka Ethel George
- Regis Toomey as Tom Owens
- Paul Hurst as Pete Shore
- George Irving as Colonel Wentworth
- Frederick Burt as Detective Lt. Mike Kearney
- James Durkin as Prison Warden
- Richard Tucker as Lew Durkin
- Walter James as Captain of the Guards
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