I Am the Law (1938)

Directed by

Alexander Hall

Genre

drama film, crime film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 23m

Rated

NR

Rating

7.1 of 10 from 11 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A law professor becomes a special prosecutor to take down organized crime in New York. He uses unconventional methods to expose and convict powerful gangsters.

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What happens

I Am the Law (1938) is a crime drama directed by Alexander Hall and starring Edward G. Robinson. The film, one in a wave of films of the time with anti-criminal themes, represents a departure from Robinson's screen image as a gangster. The picture was based on Fred Allhoff's 1936 series of articles for Liberty magazine called "Tracking New York's Crime Barons". (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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