The Witness for the Defense
Stella Derrick is tried for the murder of her vicious husband. She is saved, apparently, by the false testimony of Henry Thresk. But Thresk has motives and malevolent plans of his own.
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"Elsie Ferguson and the boy next door, Vernon Steele, are in love. His father wants him to marry a wealthy woman, any rich woman, so he can go into Parliament. Her father wants her to come to India and marry Warner Oland, so he can have a comfortable old age. So, like a dope, she goes; daddy kicks off -- probably from the debilitating life he spent in India instead of making his own fortune -- and Warner Oland turns out to be a sadist with the heebie-jeebies. While they're on a hunting party, rake Wyndham Standing shows up, witnesses Oland's delusions, and hears about the natives who ..."
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Print of this film survives in Gosfilmofond in Moscow, Russia.
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Stella Derrick is tried for the murder of her vicious husband. She is saved, apparently, by the false testimony of Henry Thresk. But Thresk has motives and malevolent plans of his own.