Shadow of the Law
John Nelson, a well-to-do businessman, is escorting a woman he knows as Ethel Barry to the door of her apartment suite when a man steps out of the shadows and angrily demands to know where she has been. The embarrassed Nelson excuses himself and goes to his rooms in the same hotel. The woman rushes into his apartment followed by the man who met her in the hall. The man threatens her with violence and Nelson comes to her defense. In the ensuing fight, the man is knocked out of the window and falls to his death to the pavement many stories down. He is charged with the killing and his only witness that can prove self-defense for him has disappeared, and can not be found.
Cast
William Powell
as Jim Montgomery aka John Nelson
Marion Shilling
as Edith Wentworth
Natalie Moorhead
as Ethel Barry aka Ethel George
Regis Toomey
as Tom Owens
Paul Hurst
as Pete Shore
George Irving
as Colonel Wentworth
Frederick Burt
as Detective Lt. Mike Kearney
James Durkin
as Prison Warden
Richard Tucker
as Lew Durkin
Walter James
as Captain of the Guards
Reviews
CinemaSerf
This packs quite a lot into an hour or so, with William Powell doing just about enough to keep it afloat. He is the wealthy "Nelson/Montgomery" who in concluding a rather promising first date before an unfortunate encounter with a stranger (to him, anyway) who ends up splatted all over the pavement ...
