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The district attorney (DA) represents the state government in the prosecution of criminal offenses, and is the chief law enforcement officer and legal officer of their jurisdiction. The district attorney supervises a staff of prosecutors, with titles including assistant, administrative, and executive district attorneys. Depending upon the system in place, district attorneys may be appointed by the chief executive of the jurisdiction or elected by the voters of the jurisdiction. The title “district attorney” is used by several major jurisdictions within the United States, including California, Massachusetts, New York, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Oklahoma, Oregon, and Texas.
The United States Judiciary Act of 1789, Section 35, provided for the appointment of a person in each judicial district to prosecute federal crimes and to represent the United States in all civil actions to which it was a party. Initially, there were 13 districts to cover the 11 States that had by that time ratified the constitution. Each State was a district, except for Massachusetts and Virginia which formed two. Districts were added when additional States were admitted. The statute did not confer a title upon these local agents of federal authority, but subsequent statutes and court decisions referred to them most frequently as “district attorneys.” In 1948, the Judicial Code adopted the term “United States attorneys.”
Actors: Nicholas Tabarrok (producer), Joel S. Rice (miscellaneous crew), Stanley M. Brooks (producer), Margot Kidder (actress), Dahla MacKenna (miscellaneous crew), John Fasano (producer), Gerry Quigley (actor), Wayne Robson (actor), Louis Di Bianco (actor), Michael Stevens (actor), Aron Tager (actor), Thomas Michael (actor), John Cassini (actor), Jason Schombing (actor), Emily Hampshire (actress),
Plot: Bobby Comfort is the only one of three prison breakers who gets far, from Rochester (NY) to Florida. Once caught in the act of more thefts, he successfully pleads unlawful overextended incarceration and is free to return to his wife Peggy and daughter Stephanie. Mystery crime mind Sammy Nalo tempts Bobby to try a new 'niche', stealing from barely-protected New York state hotels. Clever Bobby saves the day despite his accomplices' violent stupidity and enjoys using his charms. However his own in-law, Phil Parris, besotted with Peggy and demoted from detective to uniformed, ultimately gets the authorities motivated to start a task force.
Keywords: based-on-true-story, con-man, gang, heist, hotel, jail, jewelry-heist, jewelry-thief, party, prisonActors: Cassandra Barbour (miscellaneous crew), James Gelfand (composer), Irene Litinsky (producer), Peter Svatek (director), Babs Chula (actress), Leslie Greif (producer), Dana Delany (actress), Vlasta Vrana (actor), Russell Yuen (actor), André Link (producer), Benz Antoine (actor), Hart Bochner (actor), Ellen David (actress), Lonnie Ramati (miscellaneous crew), Douglas W. McHenry (miscellaneous crew),
Plot: Michigan surgeon Steve Johnson has a happy family with shopkeeper Nathalie and their adoptive pre-teen son Evan. They want a second child, but neither the natural way nor VIF works, so they hope to adopt again. Their lawyer fails to get one and advises against Internet offers, but Nathalie insists to try at least one, from New York lawyer Gabor Szabo, offering penniless Hungarian Janka's daughter Gitta. Indeed he tries to auction her off, which isn't even illegal. New York cop Joey Perrotta failed to pose as candidate-adoptive father, but recruits the Johnsons for his legally shaky case. They accept although keeping Gitta is far from obvious.
Keywords: adoption, auction-bidder, baby, baby-girl, baby-trafficking, black-market, childless-couple, con-artist, false-identity, fbiActors: Walter Abel (actor), Cyril Ring (actor), Don 'Red' Barry (actor), Stanley Andrews (actor), Sam Ash (actor), Johnny Downs (actor), Jim Farley (actor), John Hamilton (actor), Gladden James (actor), Milton Kibbee (actor), Eddie Laughton (actor), Warren Douglas (actor), Forbes Murray (actor), George Offerman Jr. (actor), Dick Rush (actor),
Plot: A crusading and reform-minded District Attorney gives up his position in order to open establish a farm that give juvenile delinquents and first-offenders a place to straighten out their lives before they reach the point of no return. He meets much resistance from various segments of the law and the citizens.
Keywords: 1930s, archive-footage, b-movie, cigarette-smoking, crusader, district-attorney, education, farm, gang-leader, gang-memberActors: Frank McGlynn Sr. (actor), Frank Darien (actor), Victor Kilian (actor), Arthur Aylesworth (actor), Olin Howland (actor), Edward LeSaint (actor), Victor Jory (actor), Erville Alderson (actor), Walter Brennan (actor), Tommy Bupp (actor), Eric Alden (actor), Roland Drew (actor), Georgie Billings (actor), Donald Meek (actor), Robert McKenzie (actor),
Plot: Sentiment rules in this version of the Twain tale of boyhood in 1850 Missouri, reasonably faithful except for minor details and making the character Jim a boy instead of a man. Includes the whitewash episode, puppy love, the graveyard murder, the boys' running away to Jackson's Island, the salvation of Muff Potter, and the cave adventure.
Keywords: applause, arrest, aunt, aunt-nephew-relationship, based-on-novel, bat, beating, bible, biracial, blackboardActors: James A. Marcus (actor), Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson (actor), Hooper Atchley (actor), Lynton Brent (actor), Horace B. Carpenter (actor), Eduardo Ciannelli (actor), Franklyn Farnum (actor), Paul Fix (actor), Bud Geary (actor), John Hamilton (actor), John Ince (actor), Si Jenks (actor), Roscoe Karns (actor), Murdock MacQuarrie (actor), Philo McCullough (actor),
Genres: Crime, Drama,Actors: Ernie Alexander (actor), William Arnold (actor), Hooper Atchley (actor), Stanley Andrews (actor), Wade Boteler (actor), Don Brodie (actor), Ralph Byrd (actor), Jimmy Conlin (actor), Nick Copeland (actor), Sven Hugo Borg (actor), Harry Depp (actor), Edward Earle (actor), Creighton Hale (actor), Eddie Hart (actor), Harry Harvey (actor),
Genres: Drama,Actors: Stanley Andrews (actor), Eddie Kane (actor), Davison Clark (actor), Tom Brown (actor), Albert Conti (actor), Thomas E. Jackson (actor), Ricardo Cortez (actor), Frank Dawson (actor), Paul Fix (actor), Sam Flint (actor), John Hamilton (actor), Ralf Harolde (actor), Nick Copeland (actor), Louis Calhern (actor), Edward Keane (actor),
Genres: Crime, Drama,Actors: Frank Albertson (actor), Harvey Clark (actor), Ernie Alexander (actor), Herbert Ashley (actor), George Chandler (actor), Ward Bond (actor), Harry Bowen (actor), Ed Brady (actor), Walter Brennan (actor), Raymond Brown (actor), Erville Alderson (actor), Walter Abel (actor), Frederick Burton (actor), Bruce Cabot (actor), Gino Corrado (actor),
Plot: Based on the story "Mob Rule" by Norman Krasna. Joe Wilson and Katherine Grant are in love, but he doesn't have enough money for them to get married. So Katherine moves across the country to make money. But things go disastrously wrong for Joe when he stops in a small town and is mistaken for a wanted murderer. Through the course of the movie, Fritz Lang shows us how a decent and once civilized man can become a ruthless and bitter man.
Keywords: 1930s, african-american, alienation, arson, assumption, axe, band, bar, barber, barber-shopActors: George Anderson (actor), Edgar Bergen (actor), Donald MacBride (actor), Jack Henley (writer), Burnet Hershey (writer), Lloyd French (director), Charlie McCarthy (actor), Gerrie Worthing (actress), Frank Lillo (actor), Edith Brandell (actress),
Genres: Comedy, Short,Actors: Oscar Apfel (actor), Edward Biby (actor), Ted Billings (actor), Richard Arlen (actor), Tommy Bond (actor), Frederick Burton (actor), Heinie Conklin (actor), Donald Cook (actor), Edward Cooper (actor), Nick Copeland (actor), John Dilson (actor), Tom Dugan (actor), Douglass Dumbrille (actor), Budd Fine (actor), Jack Gardner (actor),
Plot: Dan Matthews ('Richard Arlen' (qv)), a young parson, is in love with Hope Strong ('Charlotte Wynters' (qv)), the daughter of James B. Strong ('FRederick Burton'), a man who controls the town with his real estate and business interests. Strong is an upstanding citizen who has fallen into the hands of a clever racketeer, Jeff Hardy ('Douglass Dumbrille' (qv)), who acts as Strong's manager of some innocent-appearing amusement places that are really secret dens of vice.
Keywords: 1930s, amusement-park, b-movie, based-on-novel, blackmail, business-manager, butler, cafe, carnival, character-name-in-title