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Chicago
Sexy, jazz-loving and dressed to kill, Roxie Hart (Phyllis Haver) has a doting, handsome husband in Victor Varconi; not to mention a gold-digging affair on the side with Eugene Pallette, who pays and pays, eventually with his life. Put on trial for murder, Roxie secures lawyer Billy Flynn (Robert Edeson), equal part mob...Start your free trial to watch -
Inquest
In this courtroom drama, a young woman is suspected of killing her husband after a revolver is found in her attic. She enlists the support of a King's Counsel to help prove her innocence. It was based on a play by Michael Barringer which had previously been adapted as a film in 1931.Start your free trial to watch
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Mr. District Attorney
When Harvard Law School graduate P. Cadwallader Jones (Dennis O'Keele) bungles his first assignment in the D.A.'s office, he is next assigned the made-work job of reviewing the closed case of a crooked city official (Peter Lorre) who vanished with a stolen $100,000. The cold case suddenly gets hot when the...Start your free trial to watch -
Stranger on Horseback
Joel McCrea brings law and order to the range in STRANGER ON HORSEBACK. McCrea portrays a circuit judge Richard Thorne, who comes to a small western town in the course of making his rounds. There he finds the town and surrounding area under the feudal thumb of an old-line family headed by Josiah Bannerman...Start your free trial to watch -
The Trial
Adapted from the novel by Franz Kafka, THE TRIAL stars Anthony Perkins as Joseph K., an innocent victim charged with an unnamed crime. Masterfully directed by Orson Welles, who sets a riveting, maddening and brilliantly disturbing pace. While the source for THE TRIAL is described as "restored" it is still admittedly less than...Start your free trial to watch
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Your Witness
Made in the Hitchcock style (and produced by longtime Hitchcock partner Joan Harrison), this witty English-made mystery/courtroom drama stars Robert Montgomery (who also directed) as a New York lawyer who comes to England to help a wartime pal (Michael Ripper) wrongly accused of murder. Who is the mysterious missing witness...Start your free trial to watch




