Our Leading Citizen

The Story of a Lovable, Humorous Politician..!

Our Leading Citizen — Plot

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.

• Release date
• August 23, 1939
• Runtime
• 89 min
• Genres
• Drama, Comedy
• Director
• Alfred Santell

Our Leading Citizen — Cast

Bob Burns Lem Schofield Susan Hayward Judith Schofield Joseph Allen Clay Clinton Elizabeth Patterson Aunt Tillie Charles Bickford Shep Muir Gene Lockhart J.T. Tapley Kathleen Lockhart Mrs. Barker Otto Hoffman Mr. Stoney