TRUE CONFESSION (1937)
Black and White, 85 min
Character: Helen Bartlett
Director: Wesley Ruggles
Cast: Fred MacMurray, John Barrymore, Una Merkel, Porter Hall, Edgar Kennedy
Studio: Paramount Pictures

Synopsis:
Helen and Ken are a pretty strange couple. She is a pathological liar, and he is a scrupulously honest (and therefore unsuccessful) lawyer. Helen starts a new job, and when her employer is found dead, all the (circumstantial) evidence points at her. She is put on trial for murder, and her husband defends her. He thinks she is lying again when she says she didn't do it, and insists she plead that she did, but in self defense. Charlie, a shady, odd character who may or may not know something about what really happened, hangs around the courtroom and jail making rude comments and noises. After Helen is acquitted, he tries to blackmail them.

 

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