

The Great Defender
1934-11-26 · 68 min · ★ 4.6
Sir Douglas Rolls is a highly respected defence lawyer of many years experience. Now in rapidly failing health, he is advised to retreat from the courtroom and pursue more pleasurable activities. But it is just at this point in his life that his great lost love a woman his own strong sense of duty led him to give up twenty years ago, and whom he still loves deeply walks into his chambers to ask that he defend her adulterous husband, now to stand trial for murder. Reluctantly agreeing to take on the case, Sir Douglas soon finds there is more to the story than meets the eye.
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- Directors
- Thomas Bentley
- Production companies
- BIF
- Countries
- United Kingdom
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- Released
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Matheson LangSir Douglas Rolls
Margaret BannermanLaura Locke
Arthur MargetsonLeslie Locke
Jeanne StuartPhyllis Ware
Richard BirdEric Hammond
Frank AtkinsonPope
Robert HortonDoctor Hackett
Laurence HanrayParker
J. Fisher WhiteJudge
Kathleen HarrisonAgnes Carter
O.B. ClarenceMr. Hammond
Mary JerroldMrs. Hammond
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