Public Defender | show | 1954 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

The Public Defender is a half-hour 69-episode television dramatic series starring Reed Hadley as Bart Matthews, an attor | dHNfcmh2VklqR01tZGs

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00:00A public defender is an attorney employed by the community and responsible for giving legal aid

00:08without cost to any person who seeks it and is financially unable to employ private counsel.

00:15It is his duty to defend those accused of crime until the issue is decided in the court of law.

00:21The first public defender's office in the United States was opened in January 1913.

00:27Over the years, other offices were opened.

00:30And today, that handful has grown to a network.

00:34A network of lawyers cooperating to protect the rights of our clients.

00:49But sometimes, a true story within the studio itself can be more exciting than anything conjured up in the mind of a writer.

00:57This story began at National Film Studios.

01:00And we have had so much in our life together.

01:04So do it as whatever will bring gladness to your heart.

01:09As a queen, your gladness will always be mine.

01:16Your name Walton Loring?

01:18That's right.

01:20You police officers?

01:21Yeah.

01:22You're under arrest.

01:23Solving robbery.

01:24I'll get my film.

01:25I'll be right with you.

01:31Assault and robbery.

01:33Those are serious charges.

01:36I know, but I didn't mean to hurt him.

01:39I'm afraid we'll have to come up with something better than that in court.

01:42Maybe if you were to tell me what you and Jack Taney were arguing about,

01:46he owed me money and I'd try to collect it.

01:48You knew that I.O.U. you held of his was outlawed 17 years ago.

01:53He still owed me the money.

01:56I don't understand you, Walt.

01:58At one time, you were a well-known motion picture director.

02:01Now, it's hard to believe that a man of your background would rob a man of a few hundred dollars.

02:06Very few people in this business remember me as a director.

02:09So, let them remember me as a thief.

02:14It was obvious that if I was to help, I had to start somewhere else.

02:19I went out to Walt's former place of employment, National Film Studio.

02:24Loring had many friends on the lot, but no one had any idea why he would have turned to robbery.

02:29I was about to give up when I decided to have a word with Sid Page,

02:33one of the studio's oldest employees.

02:35Loring had many friends on the lot.