Released:
1939-08-23

Overview:
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.

Director:
Alfred Santell

Runtime:
1h 29min

Genre:
Drama, Comedy

• Cast:
• 
  Bob Burns
  as
  Lem Schofield
• 
  Susan Hayward
  as
  Judith Schofield
• 
  Joseph Allen
  as
  Clay Clinton
• 
  Elizabeth Patterson
  as
  Aunt Tillie
• 
  Charles Bickford
  as
  Shep Muir