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"CAN A DISREPUTABLE LAWYER BE REDEEMED AND BECOME AN UPRIGHT JUDGE?"
Julian Randolph, a disreputable lawyer, gains an ad interim appointment to the Supreme bench as a reward for fixing a jury that acquits the brother of the political boss of a charge of murder. He was promised the nomination for the full term at the next election, but gains it only through threat of exposure of a bigamous marriage contracted by the boss. Then comes love for a noble woman and the question whether he shall take defeat with honor or gain seeming honor at the cost of his manhood. It is a momentous problem, but he makes a decision that proves him worthy of the robes of honor.Read moreLess
Julian Randolph, a disreputable lawyer, gains an ad interim appointment to the Supreme bench as a reward for fixing a jury that acquits the brother of the political boss of a charge of murder. He was promised the nomination for the full term at the next election, but gains it only through threat of exposure of a bigamous marriage contracted by the boss. Then comes love for a noble woman and the question whether he shall take defeat with honor or gain seeming honor at the cost of his manhood. It is a momentous problem, but he makes a decision that proves him worthy of the robes of honor.
The story
Julian Randolph, a disreputable lawyer, gains an ad interim appointment to the Supreme bench as a reward for fixing a jury that acquits the brother of the political boss of a charge of murder. He was promised the nomination for the full term at the next election, but gains it only through threat of exposure of a bigamous marriage contracted by the boss. Then comes love for a noble woman and the question whether he shall take defeat with honor or gain seeming honor at the cost of his manhood. It is a momentous problem, but he makes a decision that proves him worthy of the robes of honor.
Cast & crew
Henry B. WalthallJulian Randolph
Mary CharlesonRoxana Frisbee
Lois WilsonLaura Nelson
Noah Beery'Boss' Nordhoff
Eugene PalletteClifford Nordhoff
Joseph J. DowlingBruce Nelson
Fred MontagueMillion MulliganExplore the crew
- Director
- Rex Ingram
- Writer
- Ethel Dorrance
- Writer
- James Dorrance
- Writer
- Julian La Mothe