The Judge Steps Out (1947)

The Judge Steps Out is a 1949 American comedy film directed by Boris Ingster and written by Boris Ingster and Alexander Knox. The film stars Alexander Knox, Ann Sothern, George Tobias, Sharyn Moffett, Florence Bates, Frieda Inescort and Myrna Dell. The film was completed in March 1947, but RKO held up its American release until June 11, 1949, by RKO Pictures.The film was retitled Índian Summer in Great Britain and the Commonwealth.

Synopsis

Circa late ‘40’s. Boston (and, it’s always winter there) Judge Thomas Bailey is bored with his job as a probate judge and appears to be just going through the motions as he decides in a case against a mother for custody of her child in favor of the child’s more conservative grandfather.

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