Our Leading Citizen
Dirigido por Alfred SantellLem Schofield practices law in a formerly small-town that has grown to be an industrialized big city, He bases his ideals on the examples set by Abraham Lincoln and never waivers in them nor his sense of justice for the poor. His deceased partner's son, Clay Clinton, in love with Schofield's daughter, Judith, joins the firm but is anxious for quick success and considers Schofield's old-fashioned law offices out of step with the times. He moves over to the elaborate offices supplied by the city's most powerful industrialist, J. T. Tapley, who plans on using Clay's good family-name reputation as a stepping stone to political patronage. The rift between Schofiled and Clay widens when the unscrupulous Tapley precipitates a strike in his factory mill, and then brings in strike-breaking scabs. Schofield can not abide the riots, suffering and death to the workers and sets out to bring Tapley and his political henchmen to justice.
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Our Leading Citizenfoi lançado em 23 de agosto de 1939.
Our Leading Citizenfoi dirigido por Alfred Santell.
Our Leading Citizentem a duração de 89 min.
Our Leading Citizenfoi produzido por George M. Arthur.
Lem Schofield practices law in a formerly small-town that has grown to be an industrialized big city, He bases his ideals on the examples set by Abraham Lincoln and never waivers in them nor his sense of justice for the poor. His deceased partner's son, Clay Clinton, in love with Schofield's daughter, Judith, joins the firm but is anxious for quick success and considers Schofield's old-fashioned law offices out of step with the times. He moves over to the elaborate offices supplied by the city's most powerful industrialist, J. T. Tapley, who plans on using Clay's good family-name reputation as a stepping stone to political patronage. The rift between Schofiled and Clay widens when the unscrupulous Tapley precipitates a strike in his factory mill, and then brings in strike-breaking scabs. Schofield can not abide the riots, suffering and death to the workers and sets out to bring Tapley and his political henchmen to justice.
Os caracteres-chave em Our Leading Citizen são Lem Schofield (Bob Burns), Judith Schofield (Susan Hayward), Clay Clinton (Joseph Allen).
Our Leading Citizen é avaliado Not Rated.
Our Leading Citizen é um filme de Drama, Comédia, Romance.
Our Leading Citizen tem uma classificação de audiência 6de 10.