Attorney for the Defense
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Directed by	Irving Cummings
Screenplay by	Jo Swerling
Story by	James Kevin McGuinness
Produced by	Harry Cohn
Starring	Edmund Lowe Evelyn Brent Constance Cummings
Cinematography	Ted Tetzlaff
Edited by	Gene Havlick
Production company	Columbia Pictures
Distributed by	Columbia Pictures
Release date	May 21, 1932 (1932-05-21)
Running time	72 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Attorney for the Defense is a 1932 American pre-Code crime film directed by Irving Cummings and starring Edmund Lowe, Evelyn Brent, and Constance Cummings.^[1]

Cast

Edmund Lowe as William J. Burton
Evelyn Brent as Val Lorraine
Constance Cummings as Ruth Barry
Don Dillaway as Paul Wallace
- Douglas Haig as Paul Wallace as a Boy
Dorothy Peterson as Mrs. Wallace
Bradley Page as Nick Quinn a.k.a. Kramer
Nat Pendleton as Mugg Malone
Dwight Frye as James Wallace
Wallis Clark as District Attorney James A. Crowell
Clarence Muse as Jefferson Q. Leffingwell

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Films directed by Irving Cummings

Flesh and Blood (1922)
Broad Daylight (1922)
The Jilt (1922)
The Man from Hell's River (1922)
Paid Back (1922)
Environment (1922)
The Drug Traffic (1923)
East Side - West Side (1923)
Broken Hearts of Broadway (1923)
Stolen Secrets (1924)
In Every Woman's Life (1924)
Riders Up (1924)
Fools Highway (1924)
The Dancing Cheat (1924)
The Rose of Paris (1924)
As Man Desires (1925)
One Year to Live (1925)
Just a Woman (1925)
The Desert Flower (1925)
Infatuation (1925)
The Johnstown Flood (1926)
Rustling for Cupid (1926)
The Midnight Kiss (1926)
The Country Beyond (1926)
Bertha, the Sewing Machine Girl (1926)
The Brute (1927)
The Port of Missing Girls (1928)
Romance of the Underworld (1928)
Dressed to Kill (1928)
In Old Arizona (1928)
Behind That Curtain (1929)
Not Quite Decent (1929)
Cameo Kirby (1930)
On the Level (1930)
A Devil with Women (1930)
A Holy Terror (1931)
The Cisco Kid (1931)
Attorney for the Defense (1932)
The Night Club Lady (1932)
Man Against Woman (1932)
Man Hunt (1933)
The Woman I Stole (1933)
The Mad Game (1933)
I Believed in You (1934)
Grand Canary (1934)
The White Parade (1934)
Curly Top (1935)
It's a Small World (1935)
Poor Little Rich Girl (1936)
Girls' Dormitory (1936)
White Hunter (1936)
Vogues of 1938 (1937)
Merry-Go-Round of 1938 (1937)
Little Miss Broadway (1938)
Just Around the Corner (1938)
Everything Happens at Night (1939)
Hollywood Cavalcade (1939)
The Story of Alexander Graham Bell (1939)
Lillian Russell (1940)
Down Argentine Way (1940)
That Night in Rio (1941)
Belle Starr (1941)
Louisiana Purchase (1941)
My Gal Sal (1942)
Springtime in the Rockies (1942)
Sweet Rosie O'Grady (1943)
What a Woman! (1943)
The Impatient Years (1944)
The Dolly Sisters (1945)
Double Dynamite (1951)

Jo Swerling

Jo Swerling
Screenwriting	Humor Risk (1921) Ladies of Leisure (1930) Madonna of the Streets (1930) Dirigible (1931) The Miracle Woman (1931) Platinum Blonde (1931) Forbidden (1932) Behind the Mask (1932) Love Affair (1932) Attorney for the Defense (1932) The Defense Rests (1934) Lady by Choice (1934) Once to Every Woman (1934) Love Me Forever (1935) The Whole Town's Talking (1935) Pennies from Heaven (1936) Double Wedding (1937) Made for Each Other (1939) The Real Glory (1939) Gone with the Wind (1939) The Westerner (1940) Blood and Sand (1941) Confirm or Deny (1941) The Pride of the Yankees (1942) Crash Dive (1943) Lifeboat (1944) Leave Her to Heaven (1945) It's a Wonderful Life (1946) Thunder in the East (1952) Guys and Dolls (1955) The Big Bankroll (1961)
Other	Guys and Dolls
Family	Peter Swerling (son)