Our Leading Citizen

Synopsis

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.

Main Cast

Bob Burns

Lem Schofield

Age : 65 | Popularity : 4%

Susan Hayward

Judith Schofield

Age : 57 | Popularity : 18%

Joseph Allen

Clay Clinton

Age : 44 | Popularity : 3%

Elizabeth Patterson

Aunt Tillie

Age : 90 | Popularity : 7%

Charles Bickford

Shep Muir

Age : 76 | Popularity : 14%

Gene Lockhart

J.T. Tapley

Age : 65 | Popularity : 7%

Kathleen Lockhart

Mrs. Barker

Age : 83 | Popularity : 3%

Otto Hoffman

Mr. Stoney

Age : 65 | Popularity : 5%

Crew

Department	Role	Name
Art	Art Direction	Hans Dreier Roland Anderson
Sound	Original Music Composer	Gerard Carbonara
Camera	Director of Photography	Victor Milner
Writing	Screenplay	Jack Moffitt
	Story	Irvin S. Cobb
Directing	Director	Alfred Santell
	Assistant Director	Russell Mathews
Production	Producer	George M. Arthur
	Executive Producer	William LeBaron
Editing	Editor	Hugh Bennett
Department	Role	Name

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