In this entertaining though improbable courtroom drama, John Barrymore plays a young man who becomes a lawyer after leaving reform school. He becomes the attorney for William Boyd, a powerful underworld figure and a former classmate of Barrymore from reform school. Barrymore eventually
turns over a new leaf, leaving Boyd and working his way up to the state's attorney's office, where he becomes an assistant DA. He is assigned to go after Boyd on gambling and murder charges, and in the course of the investigation meets Helen Twelvetrees, who is on trial through a misunderstanding
of her presence at one of Boyd's gambling joints. Eventually Barrymore convicts Boyd, ge...
Released:
1932
Rated:
NR
Length:
73 mins