The Great Defender
Sir Douglas Rolls is a highly respected defence lawyer of many years experience. Now in rapidly failing health, he is advised to retreat from the courtroom and pursue more pleasurable activities. But it is just at this point in his life that his great lost love a woman his own strong sense of duty led him to give up twenty years ago, and whom he still loves deeply walks into his chambers to ask that he defend her adulterous husband, now to stand trial for murder. Reluctantly agreeing to take on the case, Sir Douglas soon finds there is more to the story than meets the eye.
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Sir Douglas Rolls is a highly respected defence lawyer of many years experience. Now in rapidly failing health, he is advised to retreat from the courtroom and pursue more pleasurable activities. But it is just at this point in his life that his great lost love a woman his own strong sense of duty led him to give up twenty years ago, and whom he still loves deeply walks into his chambers to ask that he defend her adulterous husband, now to stand trial for murder. Reluctantly agreeing to take on the case, Sir Douglas soon finds there is more to the story than meets the eye.
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Genre:Drama, Mystery
Written By:Marjorie Deans, Paul Perez
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Runtime:68 minutes
Studio:BIF
Cast
Thomas Bentley
Director
Matheson Lang
Sir Douglas Rolls
Margaret Bannerman
Laura Locke
Arthur Margetson
Leslie Locke
Sam Livesey
Sir Henry Linguard
Jeanne Stuart
Phyllis Ware
Richard Bird
Eric Hammond
Frank Atkinson
Pope
Robert Horton
Doctor Hackett
Laurence Hanray
Parker
J. Fisher White
Judge
Kathleen Harrison
Agnes Carter
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