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The murder of a lawyer's wife takes second place in importance to the impact of gossip on members of the small town.
Sir Alan Dearden (Franchot Tone) is an outstanding lawyer who is about to be chosen as Attorney General and his wife Lady Helen is being blackmailed by Hugh Lewis (Henry Daniell) with a bunch of love letters that Sir Alan had sent to this woman.
In this tiny town -- and really that's being charitable; hamlet is more appropriate -- there are but a handful of inhabitants and only three apparent businesses (saloon, store, and undertaker), no court or jail, no regular transportation services, no communications, no government offices of any kind, no mayor, and no law enforcement, yet a busily occupied lawyer?
Cuba Gooding Jr. stars in this unusual film about a lawyer who became a plagiarist writer and then a murderer.
It's sort of funny, but this film shows a lawyer committing the very acts that he defends his clients on.
Gooding plays Lawson Russell, a lawyer whose conscience withdraws his counsel in defending a guilty man.
Excellent performance by all, including Barbara Payton and a near film stealing performance by Luther Adler as JC's eccentric and very crooked lawyer.
Clearly the defense lawyer was brilliantly pursuing a course that forced the tribunal to cut their losses and restore Billy's rank, if he'd recant part or all of his accusations.
At one point it did appear that Rod Steiger's lawyer (a wonderful bit of acting) had him on the ropes about setting himself (Billy) up a better than and morally superior to his peers and his superiors--even the army itself.
In prison he meets blind lawyer Matt Murdock who tells him that the women Ellie claimed he tried to rape her, David explains that he wants to stay in prison.
Sharing custody with his parents they fight with everything they have, finding a lawyer to actually help their cause and get her nephew back.
And is My Cousin Vinny hilarious!! Vinny Gambini, a budding lawyer from the Bronx comes to handle is first murder case in the South-with one of the defendants being his relative.
Joe Pesci as a lawyer with no legal experience from Brooklyn whose first case just happened to be defending two "youtes" in a first degree murder trial, and Marissa Tomei in the dresses that are so magnificently out of place in the muddy Wahzoo City, Alabama but so deliciously fit her like a glove, make one of the best screen couples ever but I like the supporting characters and small cameos, too.
She travels to Charleston to defend Jack and convince the ship owner to give the position of captain of the new steamship of the company, manipulating the powerful shipping company lawyer Steve Tolliver (Ray Milland), who also falls in love for her.
I assume that MANY who saw it in 1949 were VERY disappointed because instead of the tough guy Bogart, he is a lawyer who decries the evils of slums and how it produces career criminals.
There are some strong performances: Mala Powers is good as a wild love interest of Young's, Edward Arnold is suave and persuasive as a bent criminal lawyer, Marie Windsor as usual is svelte and corrupt, and William Talman is very effective as a bonkers criminal who wants to shoot everybody, and nearly does.
He decides he doesn't want her back after all and goes ahead and gets a nasty lawyer.
An excellent cast includes Joe Pesci in one of his best roles as a hotshot lawyer.
A female cop gets raped by a gang of punks who's lawyer gets them off with a slap on the wrist.
In it, a cop (David Caruso) investigates the brutal, ritualistic murder of an art dealer, and finds the murder weapon has the fingerprints of his former lover (Linda Fiorentino), a beautiful psychiatrist who is married to his friend, a powerful, corrupt lawyer.
Fear is what this movie evokes, Richard Gear feels like an outsider, who is viewed of having western decident values, in a society where his lawyer states the groups importance over the individual in society.
Before King Kong scaled the Empire State Building, Godzilla stalked the streets of Tokyo and Spielberg's T-Rex gobbled up that lawyer, a brontosaurus in "The Lost World" swam down the Thames river.
An ex-con and his girlfriend join up with a pair of criminals to kidnap a lawyer's 8 year-old son and hold him for ransom.
Peter Pan grows up, gets married and forgets his past, turning into a fat boring corporate lawyer.
This leads to the wrong person being charged, causing the lawyer to go looking for the real culprit.
Harrison Ford plays a slimy, self-absorbed lawyer whose life takes a drastic turn after he walks into a liquor store being robbed.
The show also stars Sheryl Lee (John Carpenter's Vampires, Twin Peaks) as Miguel's coke-addict wife who aside from being his wife is also his and his other associate's lawyer.
Joe Pesci plays Vincent LaGuardia Gambini, a Brooklyn lawyer who is asked to defend his cousin and friend from a murder charge in Alabama.
This story could have brought out much emotion(Wayne's character's father being murdered and him returning as a lawyer to do in the killer) but it's pretty much kept at bay so that we're presented with a flat and typical gun-shooting contest.
Not only is she fully aware of every aspect of the business; but as the family lawyer, she is an integral part of it.
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