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Counsellor at Law: Directed by William Wyler. With John Barrymore, Bebe Daniels, Doris Kenyon, Isabel Jewell. A successful attorney has his Jewish heritage and poverty-stricken background brought home to him when he learns that his wife has been unfaithful.
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- Comedy, Drama
- William Wyler
- 1933-12-25
Counsellor at Law is a 1933 American pre-Code drama film directed by William Wyler. The screenplay by Elmer Rice is based on his 1931 Broadway play of the same title.
- Counsellor-at-Law, 1931 play, by Elmer Rice
- Carl Laemmle, Jr.
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At the bustling Manhattan law offices of Simon and Tedesco, highly successful Jewish attorney George Simon, who has risen from the slums of New York, returns to his roots when he bails out Sarah Becker's son Harry, a young Communist who has been brutalized by the police, but grows rich on sensational cases like the murder trial of Mrs. Zadorah ...
- William Wyler
- John Barrymore
Release Date (DVD) Jun 11, 2007. Runtime. 1h 18m. George Simon (John Barrymore) is a successful New York City lawyer who climbed out of a Jewish ghetto to become one of the most respected men in ...
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- John Barrymore
- William Wyler
- Comedy, Drama
Counsellor at Law is one of those great movies from 1933 that showed that Hollywood had fully gotten past its early talkie days. It’s a complex, brilliant piece of art, filled with color and character that would soon be dulled by the oncoming Production Code.
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Having just gotten a woman acquitted of a murder charge, he is juggling cases ranging from breaking a will to quashing the disorderly-conduct charges against the son of a woman he knew in the old neighborhood, before he became a hot-shot counsellor.