The Great Defender (1934)
1h 8m
Running Time
November 26, 1934Release Date
The Great Defender (1934)
1h 8m
Running Time
November 26, 1934Release Date
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Plot.
Sir Douglas Rolls is a highly respected defence lawyer of many years experience. Now in rapidly failing health, he is advised to retreat from the courtroom and pursue more pleasurable activities. But it is just at this point in his life that his great lost love a woman his own strong sense of duty led him to give up twenty years ago, and whom he still loves deeply walks into his chambers to ask that he defend her adulterous husband, now to stand trial for murder. Reluctantly agreeing to take on the case, Sir Douglas soon finds there is more to the story than meets the eye.
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Cast & Crew.
Matheson Lang
Sir Douglas Rolls
Margaret Bannerman
Laura Locke
Arthur Margetson
Leslie Locke
Sam Livesey
Sir Henry Linguard
Jeanne Stuart
Phyllis Ware
Richard Bird
Eric Hammond
Frank Atkinson
Pope
John Hastings Turner
Writer
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Wiki.
The Great Defender is a 1934 British mystery film directed by Thomas Bentley and starring Matheson Lang, Margaret Bannerman and Arthur Margetson. Its plot concerns a top barrister who conducts the defence of an artist facing the death penalty for allegedly murdering his model, while himself battling with serious illness.