State's Attorney (1931)
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. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Starring:
- John Barrymore, Helen Twelvetrees, (more)
- Director(s):
- George Archainbaud
Synopsis of State's Attorney
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. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
Complete Cast of State's Attorney
- John Barrymore - Tom Cardigan
- Jill Esmond - Lillian Ulrich
- Oscar Apfel - Ulrich
- Ralph Ince - Defense Attorney
- Leon Waycoff [Ames] - Prosecutor
- Paul Hurst - Captain Morgan
- William "Stage" Boyd - Vanny Powers
- Ethel Sutherland
- Lee Phelps - Bartender
- Helen Twelvetrees - June Perry
- Mary Duncan - Nora Dean
- Raul Roulien - Senor Alvarado
- Frederick Burton - Judge
- Albert Conti - Mario
- J.M. Kerrigan - Coachman
- C. Henry Gordon - Attorney Grey
- Nat Pendleton - Boxer
- Director(s):
- George Archainbaud
- Writer(s):
- Rowland Brown, Gene Fowler
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