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...Corrigan is called upon to make a difficult decision. He has a chance to be made governor if he refrains from convicting his gangster friend for murder. Instead, with icy contempt for his listeners, his career and his gangster friend, he sets out to obtain a conviction. Director George Archainbaud directed State's Attorney with a feeling, rare in the cinema, for the trivial and revealing irrelevance of his characters in speech and action. Good shot: Lawyer Corrigan slipping a wedding ring on the finger of Helen Twelvetrees when he is trying to prove that she is no prostitute...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Compound Fallony | 5/2/1932 | See Source »

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