

Shadow of the Law
Overview
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.
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Cast

William Powell
Jim Montgomery aka John Nelson

Marion Shilling
Edith Wentworth

Natalie Moorhead
Ethel Barry aka Ethel George

Regis Toomey
Tom Owens

Paul Hurst
Pete Shore

George Irving
Colonel Wentworth
Frederick Burt
Detective Lt. Mike Kearney

James Durkin
Prison Warden

Richard Tucker
Lew Durkin

Walter James
Captain of the Guards
Reviews(1)

CinemaSerf
@Geronimo1967February 16, 2024
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 …
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