Counsel for Crime

Counsel for Crime
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	John Brahm
Screenplay by	Fred Niblo, Jr. Grace Neville Lee Loeb Harold Buchman
Based on	a story by Harold Shumate
Produced by	Wallace MacDonald
Starring	Otto Kruger Douglass Montgomery Jacqueline Wells
Cinematography	Henry Freulich
Edited by	Otto Meyer
Music by	Morris Stoloff
Distributed by	Columbia Pictures
Release date	October 14, 1937 (1937-10-14) (United States)
Running time	61 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Counsel for Crime is a 1937 American crime film directed by John Brahm starring Otto Kruger, Douglass Montgomery and Jacqueline Wells.^[1]

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Plot

Following his graduation from law school, Senator Robert Maddox's (Hall) adopted son Paul (Montgomery) is offered a job at Bill Mellon's (Kruger) law firm. Mellon, an unscrupulous criminal lawyer, is actually Paul's real father, but he keeps the fact a secret from him. When Paul discovers Mellon's corruption, he quits and lands a job as assistant district attorney.

Soon after taking the position, Paul spearheads a state investigation into legal malpractice. This worries Mellon and prompts him to assign a criminal to implicate those investigating him in a scandal. When the criminal learns about Paul's birth, he is accidentally shot by Mellon in an effort to conceal the information. Paul successfully prosecutes his own father, who is convicted of second-degree murder because he refuses to discuss the content of the papers over which he and Mitchell were struggling, thus protecting Paul and his mother.