For the Defense

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Steve D 02/26/2024 Contrived but the leads make it entertaining. See more Jeffrey O 07/10/2023 As far as precode Hollywood films go, FOR THE DEFENSE is better than average. William Powell's performance is terrific and Kay Francis looks fantastic in stylish 1930s deco clothing. The film moves briskly as well. It has everything I like about precode stories: hoodlums, boozy speakeasies, hardboiled one-liners, and a meddlesome detective. See more 09/16/2014 mgm and WB end st 4 thisars See more 07/27/2014 Old timey, but solid courtroom melodrama about sleazy lawyer William Powell, who specializes in getting crooks off, is forced to protect his actress fiancee Kay Francis who drunkenly kills a pedestrian in her car while she was stepping out on Powell with another man. The other man takes the fall for Francis and Powell defends him in order to protect Francis. It's the kind of sleazy pre-code story you wouldn't see once the production code was put into effect, but even setting that aside, this is a pretty engrossing little melodrama. See more Read all reviews

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