I Am the Law (1938)

Directors

Alexander Hall

Cast

Edward G. Robinson, Barbara O'Neil, John Beal, Wendy Barrie, Otto Kruger, Arthur Loft, Marc Lawrence, Douglas Wood, Robert Middlemass, Ivan Miller, Charles Halton, Louis Jean Heydt, Fay Helm, Harry C. Bradley, Joe Downing

The story

New York law professor John Lindsay, due for a year-long sabbatical, is asked by Eugene Ferguson, a member of the governor's civic committee, to become a special prosecutor to fight protection rackets in the city, leading a legal staff that includes Ferguson's promising lawyer son Paul. Lindsay does not know that Ferguson is secretly involved with the racketeers. Ferguson, hoping to use Lindsay to remove some of his criminal competitors, arranges for Lindsay to meet alluring blonde Frankie Ballou, who takes Lindsay on the town for a night of dancing.

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