Was she guilty of the sins for which she stood accused?
After the American Civil War, former Union Major John Garth marries pretty settler Valerie but tragedy strikes and the two spouses end up in court where they give two different conflicting accounts of their marriage.
- 4.1
- 1957
- Released
- 1h 22m
Sterling Hayden
John Garth
Anita Ekberg
Valerie Horvat
Anthony Steel
Reverend Steven Blake
Peter Walker
Herb Garth
Jered Barclay
Jim Mingo
Iphigenie Castiglioni
Mrs. Horvat
John Wengraf
Mr. Louis Horvat
Gage Clarke
Jonathan Griggs
Tom McKee
Dave CarlinSydney Smith
Judge FrisbeeBob Adler
Lundy
Stanley Adams
Dr. Jackson
Malcolm Atterbury
SheriffJuney Ellis
Nurse Linsey
John Dierkes
Bartender
Norman Leavitt
LinseyDarryl Duran
Earl DavisReleased
en
- #violent husband
- #ranch
- #beautiful woman
- #courtroom
- #sadistic torture
- #told in flashback
- #jealous husband
- #conflict with in-law
- #honor killing
- #abusive husband
- #failed marriage
- #sadistic husband
- #witness account
- #husband kills family
- #husband wife conflict
- #rashomon effect
- #familicide
- #beautiful wife
Reviews
Sinner or Sinned Against? Valerie is directed by Gerd Oswald and written by Leonard Heiderman and Emmett Murphy. It stars Sterling Hayden, Anita Ekberg and Anthony Steel. Music is by Albert Glasser and cinematography by Ernest Laszlo. John Garth (Hayden) is arrested and put on trial for the wounding of his wife Valerie (Ekberg) and murder of her parents. The trial hinges on three testimonies