Midnight (1934)

Directors

Chester Erskine

Cast

Helen Flint, Humphrey Bogart, Sidney Fox, O.P. Heggie, Henry Hull, Margaret Wycherly, Lynne Overman, Katherine Wilson, Richard Whorf, Granville Bates, Cora Witherspoon, Moffat Johnston, Henry O'Neill

The story

A woman named Ethel Saxton is on trial for shooting her husband to death; her defense is that she did not mean to kill him, but fired under extreme emotional pressure because she could not stand that he was leaving her. Spectators give her a decent chance to be let off because it was a crime of passion. But Edward Weldon, the jury foreman, asks her whether she picked up the money the husband had collected to leave with after she shot him, and when she says yes, he concludes, and influences the jury to find, that this means the crime was premeditated.

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