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
Walter James
as Captain of the Guards
Leo Willis
as Engineer
Harry Wilson
as Convict
William Powell
as Jim Montgomery aka John Nelson
Natalie Moorhead
as Ethel Barry aka Ethel George
Richard Tucker
as Lew Durkin
Edward LeSaint
as Judge
Edward Peil Sr.
as Usher
Oscar Smith
as Elevator Operator
Marion Shilling
as Edith Wentworth
James Durkin
as Prison Warden
George Irving
as Colonel Wentworth
Sammy Blum
as Undetermined Role
Frank O'Connor
as Undetermined Role
Broderick O'Farrell
as Doctor
Harry Strang
as Prison Barber
Regis Toomey
as Tom Owens
Paul Hurst
as Pete Shore
