Ladies of the Jury (Warner Archive)
(1932)| actors: | Edna May Oliver, Jill Esmond, Ken Murray, Roscoe Ates, Kitty Kelly, Cora Witherspoon, Robert McWade, Charles Dow Clark, Helene Millard, Kate Price, (more) |
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| director: | Lowell Sherman |
| genre: | Courtroom Drama, Crime Drama, Murder, Crime, Drama |
| line: | Warner Home Video |
| year: | 1932 |
| length: | 64 minutes |
| released: | March 28, 2017 |
| format: | DVD |
| misc: | NTSC, Full Screen, Black & White |
| language: | English (Original Language) |
Synopsis
The inimitable Edna May Oliver takes over both trial and deliberations in this effervescent legal comedy-drama. When society dame Yvette Gordon (Jill Esmond) stands accused of shooting her sugar-daddy husband, it appears that the French chorus-girl gold digger is getting the comeuppance her class-hopping self richly deserves. Save for one member of the jury -- the utterly, freely outspoken society matron Mrs. Livingston Baldwin Crane (Oliver), who senses that Yvette is innocent.
It's intuition and judge of character versus chauvinism and assumption as Mrs. Crane -- the sole not guilty vote -- sets about swaying her fellow jurors opinions and solving a murder mystery. Replete with double (and triple!) entendre, one-line zingers, comical accent confusion and a barrel of well-timed suggestive eye rolls, this courtroom cutup is a prescient satire on societal sexism -- and high society!
It's intuition and judge of character versus chauvinism and assumption as Mrs. Crane -- the sole not guilty vote -- sets about swaying her fellow jurors opinions and solving a murder mystery. Replete with double (and triple!) entendre, one-line zingers, comical accent confusion and a barrel of well-timed suggestive eye rolls, this courtroom cutup is a prescient satire on societal sexism -- and high society!