Shadow of the Law
Shadow of the Law
Release: 1930-06-06
·Runtime: 69m
·★ 6.4
Crime
Drama
Mystery
John Nelson, a well-to-do businessman, is escorting a woman he knows as Ethel Barry to the door of her apartment suite when a man steps out of the shadows and angrily demands to know where she has been. The embarrassed Nelson excuses himself and goes to his rooms in the same hotel. The woman rushes into his apartment followed by the man who met her in the hall. The man threatens her with violence and Nelson comes to her defense. In the ensuing fight, the man is knocked out of the window and falls to his death to the pavement many stories down. He is charged with the killing and his only witness that can prove self-defense for him has disappeared, and can not be found.
Production Countries
United States of America
Production Companies
Paramount Pictures
Cast
James Durkin
as Prison Warden
Sammy Blum
as Undetermined Role
Marion Shilling
as Edith Wentworth
Richard Tucker
as Lew Durkin
Edward LeSaint
as Judge
Oscar Smith
as Elevator Operator
Harry Strang
as Prison Barber
William Powell
as Jim Montgomery aka John Nelson
Paul Hurst
as Pete Shore
Frank O'Connor
as Undetermined Role
Leo Willis
as Engineer
Harry Wilson
as Convict
Regis Toomey
as Tom Owens
George Irving
as Colonel Wentworth
Walter James
as Captain of the Guards
Broderick O'Farrell
as Doctor
Edward Peil Sr.
as Usher
Natalie Moorhead
as Ethel Barry aka Ethel George
