Our Leading Citizen

Our Leading Citizen (1939)

The Story of a Lovable, Humorous Politician..!

Lem Schofield, a lawyer in a one-time small-town turned industrialized big city, runs his firm on examples set by Abraham Lincoln and is a friend to the poor. Clay Clinton, his late partner's son joins the firm but is anxious for fast success and considers Schofield's old-fashioned principles antiquated. Being in love with Schofield's daughter and impatient for success he moves to offices supplied by the city's most powerful industrialist, J.T. Tapley, who has plans to use Clay's good family lineage as a stepping stone to political power. The unscrupulous Tapley precipitates a strike in his factory mill which causes a rupture between the former partners. Schofield sets out to bring Tapley and his political henchmen to justice.

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  • Release Date: 1939-08-23
  • Runtime: 1h 29min
  • Director: Alfred Santell

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Cast

  • Bob Burns

    Lem Schofield

  • Susan Hayward

    Judith Schofield

  • Joseph Allen

    Clay Clinton

  • Elizabeth Patterson

    Aunt Tillie

  • Charles Bickford

    Shep Muir

  • Gene Lockhart

    J.T. Tapley

  • Kathleen Lockhart

    Mrs. Barker

  • Otto Hoffman

    Mr. Stoney

  • Clarence Kolb

    Jim Hanna

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