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Shadow of the Law
RELEASED • 1931 • CRIME • DRAMA • MYSTERY
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Original
movie
Rating
3
Language
English
Runtime
69m
Popularity
Trending Down
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.
Cast
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William Powell
Jim Montgomery aka John Nelson
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Marion Shilling
Edith Wentworth
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Natalie Moorhead
Ethel Barry aka Ethel George
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Regis Toomey
Tom Owens
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Paul Hurst
Pete Shore
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George Irving
Colonel Wentworth
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Frederick Burt
Detective Lt. Mike Kearney
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James Durkin
Prison Warden
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Richard Tucker
Lew Durkin
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Walter James
Captain of the Guards
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