The Great Defender
1934Sir Douglas Rolls is a highly respected defence lawyer of many years experience. Now in rapidly failing health, he is advised to retreat from the courtroom and pursue more pleasurable activities. But it is just at this point in his life that his great lost love a woman his own strong sense of duty led him to give up twenty years ago, and whom he still loves deeply walks into his chambers to ask that he defend her adulterous husband, now to stand trial for murder. Reluctantly agreeing to take on the case, Sir Douglas soon finds there is more to the story than meets the eye.
Acted in
Matheson Lang
as Sir Douglas Rolls
Margaret Bannerman
as Laura Locke
Arthur Margetson
as Leslie Locke
Sam Livesey
as Sir Henry Linguard
Jeanne Stuart
as Phyllis Ware
Richard Bird
as Eric Hammond
Frank Atkinson
as Pope
Robert Horton
as Doctor Hackett
Laurence Hanray
as Parker
J. Fisher White
as Judge
Kathleen Harrison
as Agnes Carter
O.B. Clarence
as Mr. Hammond
Mary Jerrold
as Mrs. Hammond
Hal Gordon
as Percival Brown
Alec Fraser
as Grainger
Jimmy Godden
as Inspector Holmes