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The inimitable Edna May Oliver takes over both trial and deliberations in this effervescent legal comedy-drama. When society dame Yvette Gordon (Jill Esmond) stands accused of shooting her sugar-daddy husband, it appears that the French chorus-girl gold digger is getting the comeuppance her class-hopping self richly deserves. Save for one member of the jury -- the utterly, freely outspoken society matron Mrs. Livingston Baldwin Crane (Oliver), who senses that Yvette is innocent. It's intuition and judge of character versus chauvinism and assumption as Mrs. Crane -- the sole "not guilty" vote -- sets about swaying her fellow jurors' opinions and solving a murder mystery. Replete with double (and triple!) entendre, one-line zingers, comical accent confusion and a barrel of well-timed suggestive eye rolls, this courtroom cutup is a prescient satire on societal sexism -- and high society!
Movie Details
- Format
- DVD
- Encoding
- Region 1 (US & Canada)
- Originally Released
- 1932
- Runtime
- 1 hours, 4 minutes
- Label
- Warner
- Starring
- Edna May Oliver; Jill Esmond; Ken Murray; Roscoe Ates; Kitty Kelly; Cora Witherspoon; Robert McWade; Charles Dow Clark; Helene Millard; Kate Price
Manufactured on Demand
This film was released by studios as part of their MOD (Manufactured-On-Demand) line of releases. This is not a bootleg. In order to make the release of films with low sales demand possible, major studios like Universal, Sony, Warner, Paramount, Hallmark and 20th Century Fox have contracted with a distributor to provide manufactured-on-demand releases to consumers.