The Mouthpiece

1932
Unrated
1h 26min

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Ajouter une intrigue dans votre langueProsecutor becomes a defense attorney after an innocent man is sent to an electric chair.Prosecutor becomes a defense attorney after an innocent man is sent to an electric chair.Prosecutor becomes a defense attorney after an innocent man is sent to an electric chair.

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7,2/10

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Anecdotes
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. Nevertheless, Fallon's daughter, Ruth, won a criminal libel judgment in a Syracuse, N.Y. police court, against the owner of a theater that showed the film. It was later overturned.

Gaffes
Just as Vince's car drives off after picking up Celia during her last day, a lighting stand can be seen briefly across a doorstep.

Citations
Miss Hickey, Day's Secretary: It's all in the days work, said the street sweeper to the elephant.

Connexions
Referenced in Public Enemies: The Golden Age of the Gangster Film (2008)

Bandes originales
Goopy Geer
(uncredited)
Music by Herman Hupfeld
Played when Vince is leaving the first party

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snappy and unsentimental

One of the better movies of 1932, "The Mouthpiece" features a tour de force performance by Warren William as a brilliant but corrupt prosecutor with a weakness for dames, drink and dollars but who is redeemed by a stubborn moral sense that sometimes overcomes his vices. The screenplay, by the prolific but tragically short-lived Joseph Jackson (whose other work includes such gems as "Safe in Hell" and "One Way Passage"), is both hard-edged and witty, with many of the funniest wisecracks delivered memorably by the incomparable Aline MacMahon as William's loyal secretary, the type of role that might have been played by Joan Blondell or Glenda Farrell had the studio casting dice landed another way. The familiar Warners-First National stock company appears in full force including Guy Kibbee as a speakeasy bartender; Noel Francis as a golddigger; J Carrol Naish as a gangster; Walter Walker as a district attorney. The diminutive Sidney Fox persuasively plays a secretary in William's firm who helps to set him on the right path.