Shadow of the Law

Shadow of the Law (1930) is a crime, drama film directed by Louis J. Gasnier rated 6.7/10.

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

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

Sammy Blum

Undetermined Role

Allan Cavan

Juror