

The Defense Rests
HE DOUBLE CROSSED JUSTICE...UNTIL LOVE DOUBLE CROSSED HIM!!
A sleazy lawyer's female assistant sets out to end his cheating ways.
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- held at gunpoint
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- TheatricalNR15 Jul 1934
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The Defense Rests was released on 15 July 1934.
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1/8/2024
"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…
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