Counsellor at Law
Counsellor at Law

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- 76/100 based on 1,428 votes
  • Released: 1933
  • Runtime: 82 mins
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  • Studio: Universal Pictures
  • Genres: Drama

Crackerjack lawyer George Simon is a workaholic, and a successful one. Having just gotten a woman acquitted of a murder charge, he is juggling cases ranging from breaking a will to quashing the disorderly-conduct charges against the son of a woman he knew in the old neighborhood, before he became a hot-shot counsellor. He adores his wife Cora, who feels she married a bit below her station--as do his stepchildren. His secretary Rexy adores him, although he is oblivious to the ... (Full plot summary below)

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Actors in Counsellor at Law:

John Barrymore
Bebe Daniels
Doris Kenyon
Isabel Jewell
Melvyn Douglas
Onslow Stevens

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Crackerjack lawyer George Simon is a workaholic, and a successful one. Having just gotten a woman acquitted of a murder charge, he is juggling cases ranging from breaking a will to quashing the disorderly-conduct charges against the son of a woman he knew in the old neighborhood, before he became a hot-shot counsellor. He adores his wife Cora, who feels she married a bit below her station--as do his stepchildren. His secretary Rexy adores him, although he is oblivious to the fact. Threatened with losing his practice due to a discretion in a case seven years earlier, his wife leaves for Europe until the scandal blows over, and he comes to realize (just in time) who his true friends are.

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Cinema em Cena - 10/10 by Pablo VillaçaÓtimo estudo de personagem que traz John Barrymore numa fascinante atuação repleta de energia e o diretor William Wyler seguro em uma produção intimista.
CinePassion - 8/10 by Fernando F. CroceA swift, captivating record of '30s theatrical tropes
User Review - 8/10 by Greg Wimagine my surprise to find a movie I hadn't seen from my fave old Hollywood director and its a precode gem= double happiness!!
User Review - 8/10 by Matt MA film which makes great use of its setting, with the action taking place during the course of a day and entirely in the attorney's office which is populated by colourful personages. John Barrymore's pivotal performance as the attorney is a great character study, while the fast paced dialogue makes the story move at an exciting pace.
User Review - 8/10 by Gregory WJohn Barrymore gives an amazing performance. This is one of his finest roles. The entire cast actually is quite good. Great pace, very well written with nicely developed characters. Very skillfully combines humor and heavy drama, thanks to William Wyler's superb direction.
User Review - 8/10 by Steve BWell written by Elmer Riuce and very well directed by William Wyler. best of all is Barrymore's performance as a Jewish lawyer from the lower east side. An antique, yes, but very worth the attention.
User Review - 8/10 by Roy SJohn Barrymore gives an amazing performance. This is one of his finest roles. The entire cast actually is quite good. Great pace, very well written with nicely developed characters. Very skillfully combines humor and heavy drama, thanks to William Wyler's superb direction.
User Review - 6/10 by Edith NThis movie is set in an office in the Empire State Building. This is never actually important to the plot. However, the building was two years old when the movie came out--and presumably less than that when the play did!--and so had the advantage of novelty. Clearly, everything was very [i]modern[/i] if it happened in the Empire State Building. John Barrymore plays George Simon, now a rich and powerful attorney who grew up poor. (The movie summary on IMDB, practically the only supplemental information they have for this film, says he's Jewish, but I missed it.) He has married well. He is generally successful in his cases; he works a wide range of them, apparently preferring not to focus on any one branch of the law like a normal big-city lawyer. We see a client he's gotten off for murder. We see him interact with a woman from the Old Neighbourhood, who needs help with her wild anarchist son. And we see him deal with the aftermath of having faked an alibi for an old client. Obviously, the client cannot be retried for the crime; that would be double jeopardy. However, it is really, really not good for a lawyer to do that. The Bar Association takes a dim view of it, as does, you know, the law. Obstruction of justice and suborning perjury, they call it. Jack McCoy would shout at him. Then again, Jack McCoy shouts at [i]everyone[/i], so that doesn't mean much. I didn't really get into this movie much. I can't fault Barrymore for it; I can't fault William Wyler, the director. I think it must be the script. There is one moment of passion--where the anarchist (Harry Becker, played by Vincent Sherman, himself investigated by HUAC) criticizes George Simon for abandoning his roots to be the kind of lawyer who has an office in the Empire State Building. However, even when Simon is about to hurl himself out his office window, he doesn't seem all that worked up about anything. His wife leaves for Europe until he sorts out his problems; he doesn't care. He does, it seems, care about his work. The needs of a client are what drive him away from that window. Perhaps that's the point. It would be nice to believe there was one.
User Review - 6/10 by Graceann MThere are some brilliant moments in this pre-code talkie, but all in all it's quite creaky and stagebound. Unfortunate.

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