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He’s a Lawyer
(1913) United States of America
B&W : Split-reel
Directed by Edward Dillon

Cast: Charles Murray [U.R. Dunn, a lawyer], Walter V. Coyle [G.M. Barker, a broker], Louise Orth [Dunn’s secretary]

Biograph Company production; distributed by The General Film Company, Incorporated. / From a screen story by Alta M. Coultas. / Released 17 November 1913; in a split-reel with A Cure for Suffragettes (1913). / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.

Comedy.

Synopsis: [?] [From The Moving Picture World]? ’Twas Sunday in the park. “I bet she’s worth a million,” he murmured to silent exultation, as he slipped on the ring. ’Twas Monday morning. She was a “stingy-grafter” and he a lawyer with a bad case of pawn or starve. Who would a thought it? But it takes a lawyer to start things. He did with the office across the way, where his “stingy-grafter” grafted. He reached rock bottom.

Survival status: (unknown)

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Listing updated: 7 January 2025.

References: Spehr-American p. 2 : Website-IMDb.