The Defense Rests
HE DOUBLE CROSSED JUSTICE...UNTIL LOVE DOUBLE CROSSED HIM!!
Overview
A sleazy lawyer's female assistant sets out to end his cheating ways.
- Production
- Columbia Pictures
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Cast
Jack Holt
Matthew Mitchell
Jean Arthur
Joan Hayes
Nat Pendleton
Rocky
Arthur Hohl
James Randolph
Raymond Walburn
Austin
Harold Huber
Castro
Robert Gleckler
Lou Gentry
Sarah Padden
Mrs. Evans
Shirley Grey
Mabel Wilson
Donald Meek
Fogg
Raymond Hatton
Louie
Ward Bond
Hood
John Wray
Michael Cooney
Vivien Oakland
Mrs. Monte Ballou
Selmer Jackson
Duffy
J. Carrol Naish
Monte Ballou
Samuel S. Hinds
Dean Adams
Brooks Benedict
Charlie
Charles Brinley
Bartender
Don Brodie
Reporter
Crew
- Director
- Lambert Hillyer
- Writers
- Jo Swerling,Jo Swerling
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CinemaSerf
January 8, 2024
"Joan Hayes" (Jean Arthur) is employed by hotshot criminal lawyer "Mitchell" (Jack Holt) just as he heads to court for what we are sure will be his 38th straight victory. Following a kidnapping, though, "Mrs Evans" (Sarah Padden) comes to visit and as her boss is busy, she is seen by the new and keen "Joan" who begins to piece two and two together and conclude that her butter-wouldn't-melt employer is maybe not quite the shining light he purports to be. Armed with some damning evidence, she conf…