The Woman Under Oath
After a foreword introduces the question of whether women are temperamentally suited for jury duty, young shipping clerk Jim O'Neil is found holding a revolver over his dead employer, Edward Knox. Celebrated novelist Grace Norton,...
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"It's repeated depiction via flashback of the murder that places the heroine under oath prompts interesting comparisons with 'Rashomon'; but beneath its sleek, sophisticated veneer lies an increasingly overwrought and preposterous piece of hokum eventually resolved by such an outrageous coincidence that even the scriptwriter felt it necessary to have a character explain it as an act of God...."
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This film survives in the BFI/National Film And Television Archive (London).
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After a foreword introduces the question of whether women are temperamentally suited for jury duty, young shipping clerk Jim O'Neil is found holding a revolver over his dead employer, Edward Knox. Celebrated novelist Grace Norton,...