The Trial of Vivienne Ware (1932)
The Radio Drama That Electrified The Air!
Gênero : Crime, Drama
Runtime : 56M
Director : William K. Howard
Sinopse
Vivienne Ware is defended by her ex-beau when she's accused of killing her faithless fiance.
Após acordar ao lado de sua amante assassinada em um quarto de hotel, um empresário contrata uma advogada para descobrir como ele acabou sendo suspeito de um homicídio.
Baseado em fatos reais, o densorado jornalista do New York Times Michael Finkel (Jonah Hill) encontra Christian Longo (James Franco), um criminoso presente na lista dos mais procurados do FBI e que viveu fora dos Estados Unidos por muitos anos usando o nome de Finkel. Baseado nas memórias do próprio Michael Finkel. Uma investigação longa que engloba assassinato, amor, engano e redenção.
Tilly Dunnage fugiu da cidade rural em que vivia na Austrália depois de ser acusada de ter se envolvido em um assassinato. Ela parte para a Europa e lá conquista fama e reconhecimento por seu trabalho na alta costura. Decidida a acertar as contas com seu passado, Tilly retorna para casa, transformada em uma mulher atraente e sofisticada. Com sua máquina de costura e estilo haute couture, ela transforma a vida das mulheres e chama a atenção dos homens, em especial de um jovem (Liam Hemsworth). Logo, ela demanda a doce vingança de quem por anos duvidou de sua palavra.
Jane resolve ajudar o amigo Jonathan, acusado de matar o marido da amante, a atriz Charlotte. Para isso, ela se infiltra na vida da atriz como governanta, tentando provar que Charlotte é a verdadeira responsável pelo crime.
Um tenso thriller que acompanha um médico americano transformado em fugitivo da polícia após intervir no estupro de uma mulher.
When a defense lawyer's adulterous husband becomes the prime suspect in the murder of the woman he was cheating with, his wife chooses to defend him. Can she overcome his betrayal while searching for the truth?
An ex-convict who is on parole is accused of murdering a loose woman in the town where he works.
Adapted from the TV and radio series of the same name, the producer of said show reads letters from three woman providing the framing story for this melodrama anthology film. The tales focus on parenting and family struggles.
The notorious and mysterious criminal Furax steals France's famous monuments, replacing them with replicas.
Four survivors of a ship wreck are stranded on a deserted island, including a woman and the man she believes is responsible for the murder which her brother is in prison for.
Joe McKnight temporarily leaves his fiancée, Nora Langdon, for an expedition in a South American jungle. Nora gets a position as librarian in the small town of Midberg, where she boards with the Smith family. Nora is befriended by her next-door neighbor Austin Brown, who, unknown to his wife, is engaged in a moneymaking scheme with James Wilson.
This is not a Clara Bow vehicle, and yet it is clearly the aspect/asset of Clara Bow which elevates a fairly serious melodrama to a timeless and profound social statement. Opening the film on death row where the handsome youth awaits the chair, a stirring test of the legal system evolves after two elite types conspire to expose its inadequacies. Elite, jaded society lawyer Gordon Harrington fabricates a murder, implicating an entirely "hired" fall-guy, one Dan O'Connor, while the bored playboy-type hides away on a yacht until the points are proven and the legal system has been disgraced. Naturally, something goes wrong, the playboy really turns up murdered, and O'Connor is now the accused, imprisoned murderer scheduled to be hanged.
When the testimony of a crippled child sends a murder suspect to prison, a friend of the accused sets out to investigate the crime on his own.
In his feature debut, Dneska přišel nový kluk (A New Boy Started Today) from 1981, the director Vladimír Drha set the tone for a number of Czech films, which critically depicted the state of society from the perspective of young protagonists. Although, Drha primarily found scope for his work in television, he returned to the world of a “working youth” in his second film Mezek (The Mulish Victor, 1985) – albeit following him from the point of view of an educator. NFA.CZ
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Vivienne Ware is defended by her ex-beau when she's accused of killing her faithless fiance.