Directed by:
Clarence BrownCinematography:
William H. DanielsCast:
Norma Shearer, Leslie Howard, Lionel Barrymore, Clark Gable, James Gleason, Lucy Beaumont, Roscoe Ates, Edward Brophy, Bess Flowers, Charles Sullivan (more)VOD (1)
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Lionel Barrymore shines as Stephen Ashe, a brilliant alcoholic lawyer who successfully defends dashing gangster Ace Wilfong (Clark Gable) on a murder charge only to find that his headstrong daughter, Jan (Norma Shearer), has fallen in love with his client. Jan, a fun-loving socialite seeking freedom from her blue-blood upbring, is only too eager to dump her aristocratic boyfriend (Leslie Howard) for the no-good gangster. (official distributor synopsis)
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Lionel Barrymore gives a very good performance here and manages to draw attention to himself, although admittedly he does it in a slightly theatrical way in places. For its time, the film contains a fairly interesting storyline and is not afraid of having some controversy, though of course it is more in the realm of words. But the topic is not bad.
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