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Shadow of the Law(1930)
Status: Released
Date: 1930-06-06
67%
12 Votes
Time: 1h 9m
Two Women Want Him...One for His Money...One for His Love...And the Law Wants Him for Life!
Overview:
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.
Languages: English.
Countries:
United States of America
ProductionCompanies: 
Movie: Shadow of the Law
Top 10 Billed Cast
William Powell
Jim Montgomery aka John Nelson
Marion Shilling
Edith Wentworth
Natalie Moorhead
Ethel Barry aka Ethel George
Regis Toomey
Tom Owens
Paul Hurst
Pete Shore
George Irving
Colonel Wentworth
James Durkin
Prison Warden
Richard Tucker
Lew Durkin
Walter James
Captain of the Guards
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Overview
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
Average
6.667
Rating:
3.3 startsTagline
Two Women Want Him...One for His Money...One for His Love...And the Law Wants Him for Life!
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