Jed Marlowe is a brilliant, scheming, unscrupulous criminal lawyer whose specialty is defending criminal he knows is guilty but gets them off through loop-holes or bribery. Then his daughter, misled by her father’s courtroom performance, but unaware of his back-room tactics, marries the killer her father has just unjustly save from the electric chair. What’s a poor father to do?

Top Cast

Lee TracyJed Marlowe

Barbara ReadJanet Marlowe

Patric KnowlesTom Dixon

Allan LaneSteve Kendall

Linda HayesMiss Simpson

Morgan ConwayMr. Carrington

Robert Emmett KeaneJudge Butler, Second Trial

Roy GordonThird Trial Judge