Counsel for Crime (1937)

Otto Kruger once again plays a dynamic bombastic attorney in Columbias Counsel for Crime Kruger plays William Mellon a shifty shyster whose underhanded methods loses him the love of his sweetheart Anne Nana Bryant who subsequently marries a powerful senator Thurston Hall What Mellon doesnt know is that Anne has borne him a son whom the senator has adopted Reaching adulthood Paul Douglass Montgomery opts for a legal career himself taking a clerical job with his own fathers firm In typical Bpicture Mellon is charged with murdering one of his more odious clients and Paul is appointed prosecuting attorney in the case