The Law Protects the People

Duration: 11

Creator: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Format: 16mm

Color: B&W

Sound: sound

Description: Abridged from A Family Affair , this film shows how a court judge opposes the wishes of the people by issuing an order temporarily restraining the building of an aqueduct, the legality of which is questioned. He later shows them how the order benefits the community and thus gains their support., Teaching Film Custodians classroom film of excerpts from the 1937 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer feature film, "A Family Affair". Explains the checks and balances of the American judicial system by dramatizing events in the life of a small-town judge who declares unconstitutional a law which was hastily enacted in the closing minutes of a session of the state legislature.

Complete Record: Abridged from A Family Affair , this film shows how a court judge opposes the wishes of the people by issuing an order temporarily restraining the building of an aqueduct, the legality of which is questioned. He later shows them how the order benefits the community and thus gains their support., NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.