Within the Law

Details

• Director
• Gustav Machatý
• Writer
• Charles Lederer (screen play), Edith Fitzgerald (screen play), Bayard Veiller (from the play by)
• Producer
• Lou L. Ostrow
• Cinematography
• Charles Lawton
• Edited
• George Boemler
• Music
• William Axt
• Production dates
• February 1939 - 25 February 1939
• Certificate
• USA:Passed(National Board of Review)
• Color info
• Black and White
• Location
• Grand Central Station, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
• Sound mix
• Mono
• Story
• Bayard Veiller
• Film art direction
• Cedric Gibbons
• Film set decoration
• Edwin B. Willis
• Production company
• Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
• Distributor
• Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
• Copyright holder
• Copyright MCMXXXIX in U.S.A. by Loew's Incorporated - All Rights in the Motion Picture Reserved Under International Conventions

Cast

Charles Lederer

Ruth HusseyMary Turner

Tom NealRichard Gilder

William GarganCassidy

Paul CavanaghEnglish Eddie

Rita JohnsonAgnes

Samuel S. HindsMr. Gilder

Lynne CarverJune

Sidney BlackmerGeorge Demarest

Jo Ann SayersHelen Morris

Ann MorrissSaleswoman

Cliff ClarkMcGuire

Frank OrthJim Jenks

Edith Fitzgerald

Bob ReevesPoliceman

Edward LeSaintJudge

William TannenGreen's Clerk

Barbara BedfordSarah - Gilder's Secretary

Dorothea WolbertMinor Role

Edward EarleFloorwalker

Grace GoodallPrison Matron

Mary Beth HughesMamie

Claire Du BreyPrison Librarian

Naomi ChildersCamerawoman

Peter Ballbusch

J.J. Cohn

Harry HumphreyPriest

Mitchell IngrahamPawnbroker

Edward KilroyMathews

W.E. LawrenceDistrict Attorney

Gustav Machatý

Ted OliverDetective

Garry OwenJenks' Associate

Alexander PollardGilder's Butler

Jessie ArnoldPrison Matron

Helen DicksonPrison Matron

Gertrude SimpsonPrison Matron

Laura TreadwellDowager Looking at Jewelry

Dorothy VaughanMiss McGuinness - Prison Matron

Christina WellesBetty - Jewelry Saleswoman

James Kevin McGuinness

William Axt

Lou L. Ostrow

E. Lloyd Sheldon

Charles Lawton Jr.

George Boemler

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Keywords

• airplane
• based on play
• blackmail
• confession of crime
• conspiracy
• convict
• counterfeiting
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• department store
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• ex convict
• false accusation
• father son relationship
• flying
• frame up
• gang
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• gunfire
• impersonation
• impostor
• jewelry
• judge
• marriage
• moral transformation
• murder
• party
• police
• prison
• racket
• rembrandt
• revenge
• robbery
• saleswoman
• self defense
• thief
• trial
• women's prison
• writer
• wrongful arrest