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A Free Soul
A Free Soul is a 1931 American pre-Code drama film directed by Clarence Brown, starring Norma Shearer, and featuring Leslie Howard, Lionel Barrymore, James Gleason, and Clark Gable.
Plot
Defense lawyer Stephen Ashe, an alcoholic, successfully defends known gangster Ace Wilfong from a murder charge, despite his knowledge of Ace's other illegal activities. His upper-class family has all but disowned him and his free-spirited daughter Jan. Jan is engaged to clean-cut Dwight Winthrop, but their relationship is threatened when she meets Ace and becomes enamored of him and his exciting life.
Awards
More details
| author | John Meehan |
|---|---|
| award | Academy Award for Best Actor |
| contentLocation | San Francisco |
| director | Clarence Brown |
| editor | Hugh Wynn |
| genre | drama |
| keywords | camp disown drink engage gambling debt kill married murder charge new life |
| musicBy | William Axt |
| nomination | Academy Award for Best Actor Academy Award for Best Actress Academy Award for Best Director |
| producer | Irving Thalberg |
| productionCompany | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
| publisher | Loews Cineplex Entertainment |
| theme | legal legal drama |