Our Leading Citizen
Our Leading Citizen
Release: 1939-08-23
·Runtime: 89m
Drama
Comedy
Lem Schofield, a lawyer in a one-time small-town turned industrialized big city, runs his firm on examples set by Abraham Lincoln and is a friend to the poor. Clay Clinton, his late partner's son joins the firm but is anxious for fast success and considers Schofield's old-fashioned principles antiquated. Being in love with Schofield's daughter and impatient for success he moves to offices supplied by the city's most powerful industrialist, J.T. Tapley, who has plans to use Clay's good family lineage as a stepping stone to political power. The unscrupulous Tapley precipitates a strike in his factory mill which causes a rupture between the former partners. Schofield sets out to bring Tapley and his political henchmen to justice.
Production Countries
United States of America
Production Companies
Paramount Pictures
Cast
Sidney D'Albrook
as Workman
Gertrude Messinger
as Phone Operator
Hayden Stevenson
as Member
Harry Tenbrook
as Workman
Gene Lockhart
as J.T. Tapley
Kathleen Lockhart
as Mrs. Barker
Fay Helm
as Tonia
Harry C. Bradley
as Director
Broderick O'Farrell
as Member
Lillian West
as Bridge Player
Joseph Allen
as Clay Clinton
Clarence Kolb
as Jim Hanna
George Magrill
as Workman
Frank O'Connor
as Member
Syd Saylor
as Sam
Elizabeth Patterson
as Aunt Tillie
Kathryn Sheldon
as Miss Swan
Phil Dunham
as Janitor
Larry Steers
as Delegate
Susan Hayward
as Judith Schofield
Monte Blue
as Frank
Frances Morris
as Maid
Olaf Hytten
as Charles, the Butler
Heinie Conklin
as Porter
Florence Dudley
as Phone Operator
Russell Hicks
as Chairman
Charles Bickford
as Shep Muir
Otto Hoffman
as Mr. Stoney
Paul Guilfoyle
as Jerry Peters
Jack Richardson
as Member
Cyril Ring
as Delegate
Jane Webb
as Phone Operator
Bob Burns
as Lem Schofield
Nell Craig
as Bridge Player
Paul Kruger
as Workman
