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Lawyer Man (Warner Archive) (1932)
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| Starring: | William Powell, Joan Blondell, David Landau, Helen Vinson, Claire Dodd, Alan Dinehart, Allen Jenkins |
| Director: | William Dieterle |
| Genre: | Drama, Romance, Romantic Drama |
| Year: | 1932 |
| Studio: | Warner Home Video |
| Length: | 72 minutes |
| Released: | August 21, 2012 |
| Rating: | NR |
| Format: | DVD |
| Misc: | NTSC, Full Screen, Black & White |
| Language: | English(Original Language) |
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SYNOPSIS:Powell takes a more serious turn in Lawyer Man as a solicitor from the streets who is led astray by a society seductress. Joan Blondell plays his loyal Girl Friday who just may be able to save her man.
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There are 1 reviews for this movie |
  | Raymond | | This is the kind of movie about which people say, "They don't make movies like that any more." Pure professionalism from top to toe, it's a tough-talking, wisecracking, entertaining (!) inspirational tale about a lawyer who grew up tough, falls for the temptations of success (dames, mostly), fights his way back and to the top by not coincidentally manipulating a political machine boss--and then goes back to serving the kind of clients he started out with. The characters are all stereotypes and very well played by everyone from Powell and Blondell on down, especially David Landau as the political boss and uncredited one- or two-scene contract players Sterling Holloway and Roscoe Karns doing their schtick. The very busy script is punchy, the editing relentless, the camera movements and placements pretty gorgeous, and the orchestration of sound outstanding (I particularly like the generous and appropriate use of "I Guess I'll Have to Change My Plan" as incidental music), and it's absolutely brilliant that Tony (Powell) still hasn't married Olga (Blondell), his faithful legal secretary, at the end. Hats off to the virtually unknown scenarists and director Dieterle, who again looks to me like a criminally underrated director. --Ray Olson |
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