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Jury's Evidence (Original title)
Date: 1936 (Release)

Country: United Kingdom

Director: Ralph Ince

Synopsis: Crime film. A jury sitting on a case are led by their foreman through an imaginative survey of how the crime, a murder, was committed. The jury as a body turn his story down and the trial goes on to its obvious end. Denouement is unexpected yet true to the story.

Genres:
Crime, Legal and Courtroom drama

Subject:
Juries
Releases
Date: 1936Country: United KingdomRelease type: unknownFormat: not specified - Black and White - SoundRuntime: 73 mins Length: 6656 FeetDialogue (original): English

Credits (15)
Production Company: British Lion Film Corporation, Production Supervisor: Herbert Smith, Assistant Director: Arthur Alcott, Adapted from the screen play by: Jack De Leon, Scenarist: Ian Dalrymple, Original play: Jack De Leon, Jack Celestin, Cameraman: George Stretton, Cameraman: Harry Rose, Supervising Editor: Arthur Tavares, Film Editor: Hugh Stewart, Art Director: Norman Arnold, Sound Engineer: Harold King, Studio: Beaconsfield Studios
Cast (13)
Hartley Power (Edgar Trent), Margaret Lockwood (Betty Stanton), Nora Swinburne (Mary Trent), Eve Gray (Ruby), Sebastian Shaw (Philip), Tracey Holmes (John Stanton), Jane Millican (Agatha), Philip Strange (Jeffrey), Aubrey Fitzgerald, Patrick Ludlow (Cyril), Chas. Paton (Crowther), Dick Francis, Kathleen Harrison (secretary)