Shadow of the Law

June. 06,1930      NR
Rating:
6.3
Trailer Synopsis Cast

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.

William Powell as  Jim Montgomery aka John Nelson
Marion Shilling as  Edith Wentworth
Natalie Moorhead as  Ethel Barry aka Ethel George
Regis Toomey as  Tom Owens
Paul Hurst as  Pete Shore
George Irving as  Colonel Wentworth
James Durkin as  Prison Warden
Richard Tucker as  Lew Durkin
Edward LeSaint as  Judge
Frank O'Connor as  Undetermined Role

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