The Great Defender (1934)

4.6/10 68 min Drama Mystery

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.

Cast

Matheson Lang

Sir Douglas Rolls

Margaret Bannerman

Laura Locke

Arthur Margetson

Leslie Locke

Jeanne Stuart

Phyllis Ware

Richard Bird

Eric Hammond

Frank Atkinson

Pope

Robert Horton

Doctor Hackett

Laurence Hanray

Parker

J. Fisher White

Judge

Kathleen Harrison

Agnes Carter

O.B. Clarence

Mr. Hammond

Mary Jerrold

Mrs. Hammond

Alec Fraser

Grainger

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