Movie
State's Attorney
Romance film with a runtime of 73 minutes, released in 1932. Presented in English.
At a Glance
Synopsis
John Barrymore is the "State's Attorney" in the RKO picture of the same name. A brilliant criminal lawyer, Barrymore counts on his underworld connections to climb the ladder of success to the Governor's chair. "Humanized" by his girlfriend Helen Twelvetrees, a former streetwalker, Barrymore decides at long last to go straight, making mincemeat of his one-time mob patron William "Stage" Boyd in a thrilling courtroom finale. Barrymore's longtime drinking crony Gene Fowler collaborated on the script of State's Attorney with gangster-saga scrivener Rowland Brown. The film was remade (and extensively sanitized) as Criminal Lawyer in 1937.
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Cast
- John Barrymore
- William Boyd
- Jill Esmond
- Helen Twelvetrees
- Raúl Roulien
- Mary Duncan
- Oscar Apfel
- Ralph Ince
- Frederick Burton
- Leon Ames
- Lee Phelps
- Nat Pendleton
- J.M. Kerrigan
- William "Stage" Boyd
- C. Henry Gordon
- Ethel Kenyon
- Albert Conti
- Paul Hurst
- Willaim Hamilton
- Carroll Clark
- Rowland Brown
- Leo Tover
- William Hamilton
- Gene Fowler
- Charles L. Kimball
- Louis Stevens
- David O. Selznick
