Mary
A juror in a murder trial, after voting to convict, has second thoughts and begins to investigate on his own before the execution. A woman is found murdered with another woman, Mary Baring, with whom…
Mary
A juror in a murder trial, after voting to convict, has second thoughts and begins to investigate on his own before the execution. A woman is found murdered with another woman, Mary Baring, with whom she'd been heard to be arguing, present, in a daze. It seems like an open-and-shut case and Baring is put on trial for murder. During deliberations, 11 of the 12 members think she's guilty. The sceptical one is Sir John Menier who thinks there are holes in the case. However, he is talked round and Baring is found guilty. After the case Menier still has his doubts and wishes he'd been more forceful in arguing against a guilty verdict. He starts to do his own investigating. —grantss It is late night when the dwellers of a street hear a scream in the apartment of the actress Mary Baring. A police officer arrives, and the neighbors see Mary dazed and confused, with blood on her clothes and on a poker, and the body of her colleague Ellen Moore on the floor. An empty bottle of brandy is on the table and Mary is in shock with no recollection of what happened. The drunken Mr. Moore says that Mary and Ellen were rivals in the theater and the police take Mary to the precinct. There is a trial, and the jurors believe Mary is guilty, but the famous actor Sir John Menier believes she is not guilty. However, he is not able to change the position of the other jurors and is forced to change his vote to guilty. Mary is sentenced to the gallows, but Sir John decides to conduct his own investigation to prove that Mary is innocent. —Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Members of a theater troupe are integrated personally in many ways. Actress Mary Baring rents a room from fellow member, Mrs. Miller. Mary invites a number of troupe members over one evening, but by the end of the evening, the only attendee, Ellen Moore, one of the theater managers, is found dead in the apartment, Mary unaware of what happened. Mary is charged with murder as she was found standing over the dead body with the supposed murder weapon, a fireplace poker, Mary and Ellen were known not to like each other, they were heard arguing that night about an unnamed man who Mary refuses to identify, and besides Mrs. Miller, no one was known to have been in the apartment until the police arrived. At the trial, Mary is convicted and sentenced to death. However, one of the jurors, Sir John Menier, a fellow actor, he the head of another theater troupe and who was the last to relent to vote guilty, has second thoughts about succumbing to the pressure to vote the way he did, he truly believing Mary to be innocent. Part of his reasoning is that in being a fellow actor, he has a special insight into Mary's behavior. As such, he goes on a mission to prove her innocence by finding out who actually killed Ellen Moore. —Huggo
Mary
Drama,Mystery,Thriller
Film Details
A juror in a murder trial, after voting to convict, has second thoughts and begins to investigate on his own before the execution. A woman is found murdered with another woman, Mary Baring, with whom she'd been heard to be arguing, present, in a daze. It seems like an open-and-shut case and Baring is put on trial for murder.
During deliberations, 11 of the 12 members think she's guilty. The sceptical one is Sir John Menier who thinks there are holes in the case. However, he is talked round and Baring is found guilty.
After the case Menier still has his doubts and wishes he'd been more forceful in arguing against a guilty verdict. He starts to do his own investigating. —grantss It is late night when the dwellers of a street hear a scream in the apartment of the actress Mary Baring.
A police officer arrives, and the neighbors see Mary dazed and confused, with blood on her clothes and on a poker, and the body of her colleague Ellen Moore on the floor. An empty bottle of brandy is on the table and Mary is in shock with no recollection of what happened. The drunken Mr.
Moore says that Mary and Ellen were rivals in the theater and the police take Mary to the precinct. There is a trial, and the jurors believe Mary is guilty, but the famous actor Sir John Menier believes she is not guilty. However, he is not able to change the position of the other jurors and is forced to change his vote to guilty.
Mary is sentenced to the gallows, but Sir John decides to conduct his own investigation to prove that Mary is innocent. —Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Members of a theater troupe are integrated personally in many ways. Actress Mary Baring rents a room from fellow member, Mrs.
Miller. Mary invites a number of troupe members over one evening, but by the end of the evening, the only attendee, Ellen Moore, one of the theater managers, is found dead in the apartment, Mary unaware of what happened. Mary is charged with murder as she was found standing over the dead body with the supposed murder weapon, a fireplace poker, Mary and Ellen were known not to like each other, they were heard arguing that night about an unnamed man who Mary refuses to identify, and besides Mrs.
Miller, no one was known to have been in the apartment until the police arrived. At the trial, Mary is convicted and sentenced to death. However, one of the jurors, Sir John Menier, a fellow actor, he the head of another theater troupe and who was the last to relent to vote guilty, has second thoughts about succumbing to the pressure to vote the way he did, he truly believing Mary to be innocent.
Part of his reasoning is that in being a fellow actor, he has a special insight into Mary's behavior. As such, he goes on a mission to prove her innocence by finding out who actually killed Ellen Moore. —Huggo.