Our Leading Citizen
6.1
“The Story of a Lovable, Humorous Politician..!”
Lem Schofield, a lawyer in a one-time small-town turned industrialized big city, runs his firm on examples set by Abraham Lincoln and is a friend to the poor. Clay Clinton, his late partner's son joins the firm but is anxious for fast success and considers Schofield's old-fashioned principles antiquated. Being in love with Schofield's daughter and impatient for success he moves to offices supplied by the city's most powerful industrialist, J.T. Tapley, who has plans to use Clay's good family lineage as a stepping stone to political power. The unscrupulous Tapley precipitates a strike in his factory mill which causes a rupture between the former partners. Schofield sets out to bring Tapley and his political henchmen to justice.
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Bob Burns
Lem Schofield
Also in
Wells Fargo
Waikiki Wedding
Susan Hayward
Judith Schofield
Known for
I Want to Live!
The Lusty Men
Hans Dreier
Alfred Santell
George M. Arthur
Irvin S. Cobb
Also in
Steamboat Round the Bend
Hawaii Calls
Joseph Allen
Clay Clinton
Also in
Lucky Night
The Night Before the Divorce
William LeBaron
Jack Moffitt
Gerard Carbonara
Elizabeth Patterson
Aunt Tillie
Known for
I Married a Witch
Remember the Night
Victor Milner
Alfred Santell Director · Jack Moffitt Screenplay Irvin S. Cobb Story
United States release August 23, 1939 · Produced in United States
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Paramount Pictures
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United States
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Original language
English
Spoken on screen
English
Release dates
United States · August 23, 1939
Theatrical
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