
A lawyer wins an acquittal for his client, a woman accused of murder. After the verdict, he finds out that she indeed did commit the murder and manipulated him to win her acquittal. Guilt-ridden, and knowing that she can't be tried again for the murder, he devises a plan to bring her to justice.... (Full plot summary below)
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A lawyer wins an acquittal for his client, a woman accused of murder. After the verdict, he finds out that she indeed did commit the murder and manipulated him to win her acquittal. Guilt-ridden, and knowing that she can't be tried again for the murder, he devises a plan to bring her to justice.
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| Ozus' World Movie ReviewsDennis SchwartzMore than adequate Poverty Row courtroom drama. |
| User ReviewDoug Câ??In exactly 55 minutes, I will be dead. Murdered.â?? A great legal suspense noir in which Raymond Burr deliberately torments Angela Landsbury so that she will murder him in order to restore justice after she cons him into getting her acquitted of the murder of her husband who she killed during a fight over her affair with Burr. Burr defends her at trial, only to learn later that she murdered her husband in cold blood and had only become involved with Burr so that he would defend her so that she could run away with a third man. Great, tangled noir plot, with good direction and acting. |
| User ReviewRobert PGreat story but staged a bit straightforwardly. Angela Lansbury makes as likely a femme fatal as John Major an unfaithful husband and serial shagger of Edwina. This film features a pleasing flashback structure, a tight script and as said, an original story, but not much else. |
| User Reviewjay nLow budget reworking of Double Indemnity works better than it should thanks to the quality of its cast. Burr, Angela Lansbury and John Dehner all give performances better than the ordinary script warrants. |
| User ReviewJames HSolid film noir, great cast. Raymond Burr and Angela Lansbury are both terrific. Good courtroom scenes. Suspenseful. Weak supporting cast though. |
| User ReviewKevin M. WGreat story but staged a bit straightforwardly. Angela Lansbury makes as likely a femme fatal as John Major an unfaithful husband and serial shagger of Edwina. This film features a pleasing flashback structure, a tight script and as said, an original story, but not much else. |
| User ReviewAdam DDull, talky, leaden-paced but well-acted "thriller" but low on the thrills. Low on the budget too. |
| User ReviewJonathan MThis sticks right to the classic noir conventions, but does so with Angela Lansbury in a ludicrous courtroom drama where her lawyer is both her lover, a witness and a friend of the deceased (even I could call the mistrial here). The quality of the video is low and the sound is particularly bad, but I can't say that it would really be worth re-mastering. The DVD I rented was also a double-feature with another Lansbury noir (please tell me that this is not a genre), "Life at Stake." This has all the same quality issues as the first, but here she is trying to seduce and kill her totally wooden (not in a hot way) younger co-star. What, your cottage where the climactic scene takes place has a huge door opening for no reason onto a cliff? Someone might fall out! No, wait, that could never happen... |