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Basic Info
Release: August 23, 1939

Our Leading Citizen

1939
Overview

Lem Schofield, a lawyer in a one-time small-town turned industrialized big city, runs his firm on examples set by Abraham Lincoln and is a friend to the poor. Clay Clinton, his late partner's son joins the firm but is anxious for fast success and considers Schofield's old-fashioned principles antiquated. Being in love with Schofield's daughter and impatient for success he moves to offices supplied by the city's most powerful industrialist, J.T. Tapley, who has plans to use Clay's good family lineage as a stepping stone to political power. The unscrupulous Tapley precipitates a strike in his factory mill which causes a rupture between the former partners. Schofield sets out to bring Tapley and his political henchmen to justice.

Genres
Drama Comedy
Production Countries
  • United States of America
Spoken Languages
  • English en

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Cast
Bob Burns
Bob Burns
Lem Schofield
Susan Hayward
Susan Hayward
Judith Schofield
Joseph Allen
Joseph Allen
Clay Clinton
Elizabeth Patterson
Elizabeth Patterson
Aunt Tillie
Charles Bickford
Charles Bickford
Shep Muir
Gene Lockhart
Gene Lockhart
J.T. Tapley
Kathleen Lockhart
Kathleen Lockhart
Mrs. Barker
Otto Hoffman
Otto Hoffman
Mr. Stoney
Clarence Kolb
Clarence Kolb
Jim Hanna
Paul Guilfoyle
Paul Guilfoyle
Jerry Peters
Fay Helm
Fay Helm
Tonia
Hattie Noel
Druscilla
Crew
Alfred Santell
Alfred Santell
Director
Jack Moffitt
Screenplay
William LeBaron
Executive Producer
George M. Arthur
Producer
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