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5.0/10 • 23

1934-03-071h 16m

DramaCrime

One woman was to die at midnight!...another woman was to kill at the same hour...why?

Jury foreman Edward Weldon's questioning leads to the death sentence for Ethel Saxon. His daughter Stella claims to have killed her lover, the gangster Garboni, just as Saxon was to sit in the electric chair.

Directors
Chester Erskine
Writters
Chester Erskine
Editors
Leo Zochling

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  1. Humphrey Bogart

    Humphrey Bogart

    Gar Boni

  2. Sidney Fox

    Sidney Fox

    Stella Weldon

  3. O. P. Heggie

    O. P. Heggie

    Edward Weldon

  4. Henry Hull

    Henry Hull

    Nolan

  5. Margaret Wycherly

    Margaret Wycherly

    Mrs. Weldon

  6. Lynne Overman

    Lynne Overman

    Joe Biggers

  7. Cora Witherspoon

    Cora Witherspoon

    Elizabeth McGrath

  8. Richard Whorf

    Richard Whorf

    Arthur Weldon

  9. Granville Bates

    Granville Bates

    Richard McGrath

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CinemaSerf

Jun 13, 2022

5/10

Every expense has been spared with this truly mediocre crime drama. A woman is accused and convicted for murder, but as the evening before her comeuppance draws near, the foreman of the jury "Weldon" (OP Heggie) is being solicited to try and stop the execution. Quite what he was supposed to do is anyones guess, and so justice takes it's course. The plot, somewhat glacially, now moves on to a woman "Stella" (Sidney Fox) finding herself in a very similar situation - pleading a defence of crime passionnel. Guess what, though... she is the daughter of the aforementioned jury foreman. She has been charged with killing the rather unsavoury "Gar Boni" (Humphrey Bogart). Can she escape the same fate? The dialogue is delivered as if each were being individually cued, and despite his billing Bogart features hardly at all in what is otherwise a rather weakly directed and presented sob story in which I had no investment. Early talkie maybe, but all in all it's pretty unremarkable stuff.

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Status
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Original Language
English
Budget
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Keywords
death sentencepre-codepreserved film