Shadow of the Law
  • Title: Shadow of the Law
  • Original Title: Shadow of the Law
  • Release Date: 06/06/1930
  • Tagline: Two Women Want Him...One for His Money...One for His Love...And the Law Wants Him for Life!
  • Duration:69 Min / 01:09
  • Country:US
  • Genre:CrimeDramaMystery

About Film

John Nelson, a well-to-do businessman, is escorting a woman he knows as Ethel Barry to the door of her apartment suite when a man steps out of the shadows and angrily demands to know where she has been. The embarrassed Nelson excuses himself and goes to his rooms in the same hotel. The woman rushes into his apartment followed by the man who met her in the hall. The man threatens her with violence and Nelson comes to her defense. In the ensuing fight, the man is knocked out of the window and falls to his death to the pavement many stories down. He is charged with the killing and his only witness that can prove self-defense for him has disappeared, and can not be found.

Movie Rating: 6.4

Total Votes: 11

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6/10
This packs quite a lot into an hour or so, with William Powell doing just about enough to keep it afloat. He is the wealthy "Nelson/Montgomery" who in concluding a rather promising first date before an unfortunate encounter with a stranger (to him, anyway) who ends up splatted all over the pavement several stories below. Now he's in handcuffs...