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Information
- Year
- 1932
- Runtime
- 72 min.
- Director
- William Dieterle
- Genres
- Drama, Romance
- Rating *
- 6.7
- Votes *
- 441
- Checks
- 91
- Favs
- 1
- Dislikes
- 0
- Favs/checks
- 1.1% (1:91)
- Favs/dislikes
- 1:0
Top comments
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Siskoid
A pre-code vehicle for William Powell, Lawyer Man has Powell and Joan Blondell going for it, but is otherwise a disappointment. I mean, who makes a court room drama with no court room action? Like the drunk hobo in the movie, we're always in the court house, but not really in the court ROOM. Though romance is part of the film's DNA, nothing really comes of it - Blondell remains the long-suffering secretary, the fatale-ish dame has other plans, etc. - in favor of a rise and fall and rise of a principled lawyer seeing his faith betrayed by the system turning himself to dirty tactics, and... Well, at 72 minutes, it's so pacey, it felt like you couldn't track the evolution of the character. It certainly didn't help that every important female character of the film seemed to be taking fashion tips from Blondell. I had a hard time telling them apart (I now understand you, my face-blind friends!). So there's charm and humor and chutzpah, because the two leads are full of that good stuff. But they're ill-served by this freight train of a plot. 4 years 4 months ago