Illegal

Victor Scott is a district attorney who does not lose. He sends a man to the electric chair, and afterwards the man turns out to have been innocent. Scott quits, takes to drink, and goes into private practice, where his clients are criminals, including the biggest gang in the city. Then the young assistant he trained is charged with murder, and he decides to defend her, putting his career and possibly his life on the line. Lewis Allen directs, with Edward G. Robinson as Scott, Nina Foch in the cast and Jayne Mansfield in a small part. Eighty-eight minutes. It is adapted from a stage play, and joins courtroom scenes to the bleakness of film noir.