The Mouthpiece (1932) Online
When a hot young prosecutor learns that a man he got convicted and executed was in fact innocent, he quits his DA job and becomes a defense attorney. He grows rich and powerful defending guilty racketeers, but eventually sees the errors of his ways.
Complete credited cast: | |||
Warren William | - | Vincent 'Vince' Day | |
Sidney Fox | - | Celia Farraday | |
Aline MacMahon | - | Miss Hickey | |
John Wray | - | Mr. Barton | |
Mae Madison | - | Elaine | |
Ralph Ince | - | J.B. Roscoe | |
Morgan Wallace | - | E.A. Smith | |
Guy Kibbee | - | Bartender | |
J. Carrol Naish | - | Tony Rocco (as J. Carroll Naish) | |
Walter Walker | - | District Attorney Forbes | |
Stanley Fields | - | Mr. Pondapolis | |
Murray Kinnell | - | Thompson--Day's Butler | |
Noel Francis | - | Miss DeVere | |
William Janney | - | John 'Johnny' Morris |
The Vince Day character is very loosely based on Bill "The Great Mouthpiece" Fallon, one of the great criminal defense attorneys of the 1920s, who successfully defended gambler Arnold Rothstein in the "Black Sox" Fix of the 1919 World Series.
The $90,000 in embezzled funds would equate to nearly $1.6M in 2018.
Whe Vince gets shot, prominently propped up at the bottom of a column at the newsstand is the October 1931 edition of Movie Classic magazine with Loretta Young on the cover. The year after this film's release, Warren William and Young would star in their only film together - Employees' Entrance (1933).
When Vince is shot, the driver of the car is manipulating a lever on the steering column to cause the auto to backfire intentionally to cover the sound of the gunshots. This is the ignition timing or "spark" control that was common on almost all cars at the time and before. Audiences at the time would be very familiar with this.
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