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Counsel for the Defense
(1925) United States of America
B&W : Seven reels / 6622 feet
Directed by Burton King

Cast: Jay Hunt [Doctor David West], Betty Compson [Katherine West], House Peters [Arnold Bruce], Rockliffe Fellows [Harrison Blake], Emmett King [Harvey Sherman], Bernard Randall [Stephen Marcy], [?] George MacDonald or George MacDowell? [Hosea Hollingsworth], William Conklin [Thomas Burke], Joan Standing [the printer’s devil]

Distributed by The Associated Exhibitors, Incorporated. / Scenario by Arthur Hoerl, from the novel Counsel for the Defense by Leroy Scott. Personally supervised (production supervision) by Edward S. Silton. Cinematography by Ned Van Buren and George Porter. / © 6 November 1925 [LU21981]. Released 6 December 1925. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.

Drama.

Survival status: (unknown)

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Listing updated: 18 March 2010.

References: FilmYearBook-1926 pp. 37, 61 : Website-AFI.