Disbarred (1939)
Gail Patrick plays a brilliant but naive country lawyer brought to the city to defend gangster Sidney Toler. She is subsidized by pillar of society Otto Kruger, who is actually the "big boy" behind the city's rackets. Ms. Patrick must prove that Toler didn't own a weapon that he is accused of pointing at a terrified states' witness. She believes in her client's innocence, but honest district attorney Robert Preston steers her to the side of Right. Patrick is exonerated of a complicity charge, and bad guys Toler and Kruger are carted off to prison. Ironically, Gail Patrick was later the executive producer of the TV series Perry Mason. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Starring:
- Gail Patrick, Robert Preston, (more)
- Director(s):
- Robert Florey
Synopsis of Disbarred
Gail Patrick plays a brilliant but naive country lawyer brought to the city to defend gangster Sidney Toler. She is subsidized by pillar of society Otto Kruger, who is actually the "big boy" behind the city's rackets. Ms. Patrick must prove that Toler didn't own a weapon that he is accused of pointing at a terrified states' witness. She believes in her client's innocence, but honest district attorney Robert Preston steers her to the side of Right. Patrick is exonerated of a complicity charge, and bad guys Toler and Kruger are carted off to prison. Ironically, Gail Patrick was later the executive producer of the TV series Perry Mason. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
Complete Cast of Disbarred
- Gail Patrick - Joan Carroll
- Otto Kruger - Tyler Cradon
- Helen MacKellar - Abbey Tennant
- Edward Marr - Harp Harrigan
- Clay Clement - Attorney Roberts
- Harry Worth - Reporter
- Stanley Blystone - Schaeffer
- Paul Fix - Bomb thrower
- Ruth Robinson - Aunt Marion
- Jack Knoche - Reporter
- Virginia Vale - Stewardess
- Henry Roquemore - Passenger
- Robert W. Frazer - Brimmer
- A.S. Byron - Jury Foreman
- Robert Preston - Bradley Kent
- Sidney Toler - G.L. "Hardy" Mardeen
- Virginia Dabney - Gita La Rue
- Charles D. Brown - Jackson
- Frank M. Thomas - G.H. Blanchard
- John Hart - Reporter
- Sheila D'Arcy - Secretary
- Edward J. Le Saint - Judge
- Guy Usher - Judge
- Philip Warren
- Harry Tyler - Cashier
- James Pierce - Bailiff
- Dick Elliott - Small-Town Character
- Wheaton Chambers - Ballistic Expert
- Director(s):
- Robert Florey
- Writer(s):
- Robert R. Presnell, Sr., Lillie Hayward
- Producer(s):
- Stuart Walker
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