The Woman on Trial

Oct 28, 1927

1h 0m

★ 0.0

Overview

A story of a woman who committed a murder. In a French court room her life is retold by long flashbacks of her testimony and life.

Genres

Drama

Production Companies

Paramount Famous Lasky Corporation

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Cast

Julie

Pola Negri

Pierre Bouton

Einar Hanson

Gaston Napier

Arnold Kent

John Morland

André Sarti

Paul

Dorothy Brock

Henrietta

Valentina Zimina

Brideaux

Sidney Bracey

Morland's Lawyer

Bertram Marburgh

Julie's Lawyer

Gayne Whitman

John Lane is a prosperous businessman, a widower, who lives in a large house with his seven-year-old daughter Betty. Lane has an enemy, one Ben Hartley, who, by the aid of some forged papers, threatens to expose Lane and put him in prison. The night of the story opens with Lane receiving a letter from Hartley, who demands $10,000, to be paid at midnight, that night. Lane has not that much ready money in the house, and no way to get it. He thinks it all out and decides to commit suicide. He stands before a mirror and is about to pull the trigger, when Bill, the burglar, steps into the room, stopping him.

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