For the Defense (1930)
1h 5m
Running Time
July 19, 1930Release Date
For the Defense (1930)
1h 5m
Running Time
July 19, 1930Release Date
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Plot.
William Foster is a slick attorney who stays within the law, but specializes in representing crooks and shady characters. He's adept at keeping them out of jail, winning acquittals, and having decisions reversed, thus springing criminals out of prison. He is romantically involved with dancer Irene Manners, who is two-timing him, although she wants to marry him. She kills a man driving while out with her other man, Jack Defoe, who takes the blame. Unfortunately, a ring Foster had just given Irene is found at the crime scene. Foster ends up defending Jack, but when the ring is found, he thinks he is protecting Irene, so pleads guilty to jury tampering.
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Cast & Crew.
William Powell
William B. Foster
Kay Francis
Irene Manners
Scott Kolk
Jack Defoe
John Elliott
McGann
William B. Davidson
District Attorney Herbert L. Stone
John Cromwell
Director
Oliver H.P. Garrett
Writer
James Finlayson
Parrott
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Wiki.
For the Defense is a 1930 pre-Code crime drama film starring William Powell as a lawyer whose ethics are challenged when the woman he loves hits and kills a pedestrian while out driving with another suitor.