Movie Details
Theatrical Release:December 6th, 1925
Original Language:English
Production Companies:Burton King Productions
Cast & Crew
A
Arthur Hoerl
Writer
L
Leroy Scott
Writer
G
George Porter
Cinematography
N
Ned Van Buren
Cinematography
Counsel for the Defense (1925)
Plot
Typhus specialist Dr. David West has fought long and hard for the construction of the new municipal waterworks. Harrison Blake, the town's leading lawyer and banker, conspires to have the waterworks put into private hands and frames David for accepting a bribe. As none of the town's lawyers will take the case, Katherine, David's daughter and a recent law school graduate, accepts her first client in her father. However, the circumstantial evidence is too great and David is convicted. Harrison bribes a worker to sabotage the waterworks, causing a public clamor for their takeover by private interests. Katherine, with the aid of newspaper editor Arnold Bruce, uncovers the conspiracy after the outbreak of a typhus epidemic. David is freed, and Katherine weds Arnold.
