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Aug 23, 1939
89 min
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Our Leading Citizen (1939)

Lem Schofield, a lawyer in a one-time small-town turned industrialized big city, runs his firm on examples set by Abraham Lincoln and is a friend to the poor. Clay Clinton, his late partner's son joins the firm but is anxious for fast success and considers Schofield's old-fashioned principles antiquated. Being in love with Schofield's daughter and impatient for success he moves to offices supplied by the city's most powerful industrialist, J.T. Tapley, who has plans to use Clay's good family lineage as a stepping stone to political power. The unscrupulous Tapley precipitates a strike in his factory mill which causes a rupture between the former partners. Schofield sets out to bring Tapley and his political henchmen to justice.

Category

Drama Comedy

Country

United States of America

Companies

Paramount Pictures

Bob Burns

Lem Schofield

Susan Hayward

Judith Schofield

Joseph Allen

Clay Clinton

Elizabeth Patterson

Aunt Tillie

Charles Bickford

Shep Muir

Gene Lockhart

J.T. Tapley

Kathleen Lockhart

Mrs. Barker

Otto Hoffman

Mr. Stoney

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