

The Great Defender
DirectorThomas Bentley
“He would have the truth - the whole truth and nothing but...”
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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Cast

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

O.B. Clarence
Mr. Hammond
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