“Criminal Lawyer” Throws Searchlight on Politics
LEE TRACY FEATURED AS AMERICAN ATTORNEY (State: Screening Saturday.) The old adage “politics make strange bedfellows’’ is supported in the dramatic "inside story” of political life that is told in “Criminal Lawyer,” RKO Radio picture featuring Lee Tracy and Margot j Grahame in the top roles. J Angles on various types of American political "set ups,” the way in which gangsters operate in defiance of the law through the work ot clever but unscrupulous lawyers, tho power that can j be weilded by the district attorney’s office, the methods of choosing nominees for office through the influence of a few politicians who control tho party machinery of a county or a state; all form an interesting modern background > to the existing action of the film. As a ‘brilliant attorney with underworld connections and ambitions, which finally cause him to break with them to accept a district attorneyship on his path to becoming governor, Leo Tracy reveals many of these political secrets. Margot Grahamo plays tho rolo of tho girl who becomes both his secretary und his chief romantic interest. Eduardo Ciannelli, Brik Rhodes, Betty Lawford, Wilfred Lucas, Frank
M. Thomas, Theodoro Von Eltz and other favourites are in the production by Cliff Reid, with Christy Cubanne as director.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 62, Issue 105, 5 May 1937, Page 11
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