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State's Attorney (1932)

• Director
  • George Archainbaud
• Writers
  • Louis Stevens(story)
  • Gene Fowler(screenplay and dialogue)
  • Rowland Brown(screenplay and dialogue)
• Stars
  • John Barrymore
  • Helen Twelvetrees
  • Jill Esmond

  John Barrymore is the "State's Attorney" in the RKO picture of the same name. A brilliant criminal lawyer, Barrymore counts on his underworld connections to climb the ladder of success to the Governor's chair. "Humanized" by his girlfriend Helen Twelvetrees, a former streetwalker, Barrymore decides at long last to go straight, making mincemeat of his one-time mob patron William "Stage" Boyd in a thrilling courtroom finale. Barrymore's longtime drinking crony Gene Fowler collaborated on the script of State's Attorney with gangster-saga scrivener Rowland Brown. The film was remade (and extensively sanitized) as Criminal Lawyer in 1937.