Here are the virile, violent facts that caused the most famous jury verdict in history...
Madeleine's middle-class family cannot understand why she puts off marrying a respectable young man, as they know nothing about her long-term affair with a Frenchman.
- 6.7
- 1950
- Released
- 1h 55m
Ann Todd
Madeleine Hamilton Smith
Norman Wooland
William Minnoch
Ivan Desny
Emile L'Angelier
Leslie Banks
James Smith
Elizabeth Sellars
Christina Haggott
André Morell
Defense Attorney
Barbara Everest
Mrs. Smith
Susan Stranks
Janet Smith
Patricia Raine
Bessie Smith
Eugene Deckers
Thuau
Barry Jones
Prosecuting Attorney
Jean Cadell
Mrs. Jenkins
Irene Browne
Mrs. Grant
Kynaston Reeves
Dr. Penny
John Laurie
Scots Divine
Douglas Barr
William Murray, the Boot Boy
Released
en
- #glasgow, scotland
- #poison
- #based on true story
- #trial
- #murder
- #verdict
- #19th century
Reviews
Ann Todd becomes better as she plays herself into the character of a rather devious and unscrupulous girl in this adaptation of a famous Glasgow murder (or, perhaps that should be murrrrdurrrr) tale from 1857. "Madeleine" is the daughter in a well-to-do family whose father (a seriously authoritarian Leslie Banks) can't quite figure out why she won't marry a suitable young man - unawares that she h