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Wives Under Suspicion (B&W)
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(DVD - Code 1)
(US-Import)
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Workaholic District Attorney Jim Stowell has a weIl-deserved reputation for ruthlessness. On his desk sits an abacus with skuII-shaped beads to keep a morbid tally of the convicted kilIers he sends to the electric chair. When a miId mannered college professor guns down his cheating wife in a delirious moment of jealousy, Stowell tricks the suspect into a fuIl confession. Hungry for another "bead" on his abacus of death, he canceIs a vacation with his own negIected wife in order to prosecute the case. While the shooting appears to be an unpremeditated crime of passion, Stowell is unwavering in his obsession to bring in a first-degree murder charge and the death penaIty. As the trial progresses, the reIentIess prosecutor fails to notice that his own life is moving in a disturbing paralIeI track with the defendant's - a path likely to lead to unspeakabIe tragedy.
This atmospheric 1938 courtroom drama was directed by legendary film-maker James WhaIe (Frankenstein, The Bride of Frankenstein, Showboat), working with an intelligent script based on the LadisIas Fodor pIay. Leading man Warren WiIIiam's sharp profiIe and rich speaking voice kept him busy with stage and screen roIes from 1922 untiI his death in 1948, most notably as fiIm's first Perry Mason in four releases featuring Erle Stanley Gardner's famed character. CoincidentaIIy, WiIIiam's leading lady in Wives Under Suspicion, GaiI Patrick, whose third husband was Gardner's Iiterary agent, would later become executive producer of the Perry Mason TV series (1957-1966). |
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