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COUNSELLOR-AT-LAW
U.S., 1933
Directed by William Wyler
Starring John Barrymore, Bebe Daniels, Isabel Jewell, Thelma Todd, Melvyn Douglas, Richard Quine
Art Direction by Charles D. Hall
Approx. 82 min. 35mm.
Elmer Rice’s hit play about an upscale Jewish lawyer facing personal and professional crisis remains in its single Deco office set. But blazing pacing and dynamic tragi-comic acting from John Barrymore make this an all-too-little-known classic of the early 1930s.
Presented with support from The Ada Katz Fund for Literature in Film
Reviews
“An extraordinarily sympathetic study in human nature.”
– Mordaunt Hall, The New York Times
“Uses Art Moderne as a background for a particularly perverse brand of evil.”
– Screen Deco