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Call it murder

Call it murder: A jury foreman sends a woman to the electric chair causing himself and his family public persecution. His daughter becomes romantically involved with a gangster who has a personal interest in the same case before the court.

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  • "Beat the devil"@en
  • "Midnight"@en
  • "Humphrey Bogart"@en

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  • "A young Humphrey Bogart stars as a slick and flashy gangster entangled in this passionate courtroom drama. A jury foreman, convinced that a young girl murdered her lover in a crime of passion, provides the one convicting vote that sends her to the electric chair. The suspense mounts as his own daughter commits a similar murder on the stroke of midnight. An unusual revelation regarding the daughter's crime awaits the viewer."
  • "A jury foreman, convinced that a young girl murdered her lover in a crime of passion, casts the deciding vote which leads to the death sentence for the girl. He insists that he would cast a similar vote, even if the crime was committed by a loved one. His beliefs are put to the test when his own daughter claims to have killed her lover."
  • "Call it murder: A jury foreman sends a woman to the electric chair causing himself and his family public persecution. His daughter becomes romantically involved with a gangster who has a personal interest in the same case before the court."@en
  • "Edward Weldon is the foreman of a jury which finds a middle-aged wife guilty of murdering her husband for financial gain."
  • "A jury foreman convinced that a young girl murdered her lover in a crime of passion provides the one convicting vote that sends her to the electric chair. The suspense mounts to a harrowing climax as his daughter commits a similar murder on the stroke of midnight. An unusual revelation regarding the daughter's crime awaits the viewer."@en
  • "A jury foreman convinced that a young girl murdered her lover in a crime of passion provides the one convicting vote that sends her to the electric chair. The suspense mounts to a harrowing climax as his daughter commits a similar murder on the stroke of midnight. An unusual revelation regarding the daughter's crime awaits the viewer."
  • "Beat the devil: Delightful tongue-in cheek spoof of caper movies in the vein of "The Maltese Falcon" and "Key Largo" about a bunch of misfits scrambling after some uranium."@en
  • "A jury foreman convinced that a young girl murdered her lover in a crime of passion provides the one convicting vote that sends her to the electric chair. The supense mounts to a harrowing climax as his daughter commits a similar murder on the stroke of midnight. An unusual revelation regarding the daughter's crime awaits the viewer."@en
  • "A jury foreman convinced that a young girl murdered her lover in a crime of passion provides the one convicting vote that sends her to the electric chair. The supense mounts to a harrowing climax as his daughter commits a similar murder on the stroke of midnight. An unusual revelation regarding the daughter's crime awaits the viewer."
  • "[Great guy] James Cagney is Deputy Commissioner of the Department of Weights and Measures, and he exposes a bunch of corrupted officials and hoodlums."
  • "A jury foreman sends a woman to the electric chair causing himself and his family public persecution. His daughter becomes romantically involved with a gangster who has a personal interest in the same case before the court."
  • "After casting a vote for conviction in a case where he's on the jury, a jury member confronts the same crime committed by a member of his own family."@en
  • "Edward Weldon (Heggie) is the jury foreman at the trial of Ethel Saxon (Flint) accused of murdering her lover. Since the act could be considered a crime of passion, acquittal is possible till Weldon asks her if she took the dead man's money after the murder. She admits she did, which leads to her conviction and a death sentence. Weldon is considered to be responsible for the verdict, and is hounded by reporters after the trial. On the evening of the execution, Weldon's own daughter, Stella (Fox), kills her lover, Garboni (Bogart), a gangster whom she believes betrayed her. Weldon must now wrestle the problem raised at the trial on a more personal level."
  • "[Lucky Texan] Jerry Mason (Wayne) and his old friend Jake (Hayes) strike gold and look forward to the good life. But fate has other ideas. When a banker is murdered, Jake is tagged for the crime. Then he's tricked into signing away the mine. It seems somebody wants Jake behind bars for good."
  • "A jury foreman convinced that a young girl murdered her lover in a crime of passion provides the deciding vote that sends her to the electric chair. The supense mounts to a harrowing climax as his daughter commits a similar murder on the stroke of midnight. An unusual revelation regarding the daughter's crime awaits the viewer."@en
  • "After casting the vote that sends a young woman to her death in the electric chair for a murder she committed, a jury foreman is persecuted by the press but steadfastly insists he would do it again. even if a loved one were involved. He then has his beliefs tested when his daughter has committed murder under similar circumstances."
  • "Beat the devil: An adventure-comedy based around an Africa-bound tramp steamer that is destroyed by an explosion with a ship full of swindling passengers aboard, each trying to double-cross the others."@en
  • "He was the jury foreman, a firm believer in the laaw, his penetrating quesitons swayed the jury to convict a young woman of murdering her husband and she is sentenced to death. During the trial, his daughter Stella meets and falls in love with Gar Boni, not knowing he is a hoodlum mereley having a fling. When Gar is murdered, Stella's father remains convinced of the right of the law even if it is his own daughter who will be charged with first degree murder."@en
  • "Call it murder: A jury votes to convict a woman of murder in her lover's death. The foreman's daughter commits a similar murder, at the same time the first woman is executed."@en
  • "A jury foreman convinced that a young girl murdered her lover in a crime of passion provides the one convicting vote that sends her to the electric chair."@en
  • "After casting the vote that sends a young woman to her death in the electric chair for a murder she committed, a jury foreman is persecuted by the press but steadfastly insists he would do it again, even if a loved one were involved. He then has his beliefs tested when his daughter has committed murder under similar circumstances."
  • "A woman is found guilty of murdering her husband for financial gain. But because of her answer to a question posed by the jury foreman, she is sentenced to die. As the eve of her execution nears, the foreman experiences increasing pressure from the media, the public and his own family."@en
  • "Heggie plays the foreman of a jury who votes to convict a woman of murder in her lover's death. His daughter commits a similar murder on the stroke of midnight, at the same time the other girl is executed."
  • "[Call it murder] A jury foreman convinced that a young girl murdered her lover in a crime of passion provides the one convicting vote that sends her to the electric chair. The suspense mounts to a harrowing climax as his daughter commits a similar murder on the stroke of midnight. An unusual revelation regarding the daughter's crime awaits the viewer."
  • "A jury foreman casts the vote that sends a young woman to the electric chair, then has his conviction of the rightness of his action tested when his daughter commits a similar crime."@en
  • "A jury foreman casts the vote that sends a young woman to the electric chair, then has his conviction of the rightness of his action tested when his daughter commits a similar crime."

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  • "DVD-Video discs"@en
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Film adaptations"@en
  • "Film adaptations"
  • "Crime films"@en
  • "Detective and mystery films"@en
  • "Film noir"@en
  • "Fiction films"@en
  • "Feature films"@en
  • "Drama"
  • "Drama"@en

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  • "Call it murder"
  • "Call it murder"@en
  • "Call it murder Beat the devil"@en
  • "Midnight (Motion picture : 1934)"@en
  • "Call it murder & Beat the devil"@en

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