Our Leading Citizen

Our Leading Citizen

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.

Cast for Our Leading Citizen...

Bob Burns
Lem Schofield
Susan Hayward
Judith Schofield
Joseph Allen
Clay Clinton
Gene Lockhart
J.T. Tapley
Otto Hoffman
Mr. Stoney
Clarence Kolb
Jim Hanna
Paul Guilfoyle
Jerry Peters
Hattie Noel
Druscilla
Jim Kelso
Chief of Police
Thomas Louden
Frederick the Butler
Olaf Hytten
Charles, the Butler
Max Wagner
Workman
Nell Craig
Bridge Player
Florence Dudley
Phone Operator
Galan Galt
Workman
Peggy Leon
Bridge Player
Wally Maher
Convention Clerk
Gertrude Messinger
Phone Operator
Cyril Ring
Delegate
Ruth Robinson
Mrs. Hanna
Larry Steers
Delegate
Jane Webb
Phone Operator
Lillian West
Bridge Player