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For the Defense is a 1930 pre-Code crime drama film starring William Powell as a lawyer whose ethics are challenged when the woman he loves hits and kills a pedestrian while out driving with another suitor.
William Powell plays William Foster, a slick attorney who stays within the law, but specializes in representing crooks and shady characters. He's adept at keeping them out of jail, winning acquittals, and having decisions reversed, thus springing criminals out of prison. He is ro... Read all.
Brief Synopsis. An attorney, who specializes in springing criminals out of prison, is faced with a moral dilemma when his girlfriend drunkenly kills a pedestrian with her car and another man takes the blame.
For the Defense was the third collaboration between producer David O. Selznick, William Powell, and Kay Francis, whose previous efforts included the underrated Behind the Make-Up and Street of Chance (both 1930).
William Foster is a slick attorney who stays within the law, but specializes in representing crooks and shady characters. He's adept at keeping them out of jail, winning acquittals, and having decisions reversed, thus springing criminals out of prison.
Too CLEVER to be STRAIGHT. William Foster is a slick attorney who stays within the law, but specializes in representing crooks and shady characters. He’s adept at keeping them out of jail, winning acquittals, and having decisions reversed, thus springing criminals out of prison.
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