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Pathé Exchange,
1929. Directed by Rollo Lloyd, Paul Stein. Camera: David
Abel, Norbert Brodine. With
Ann Harding, John Loder, Harry Bannister,
Kay Hammond, Arthur Hoyt. |
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Judge Kessler, a distinguished judge in
Vienna, and his wife Vera separate for a while after a brief
misunderstanding but then reunite. During their separation Vera
writes some incriminating letters to Arnold Hartmann with which he later
blackmails her. She pays Hartmann in his apartment, but he forces
unwanted advances on her, and she picks up a revolver which accidentally
goes off and kills him. Grimm, the butler, is charged with the
murder, though acquitted, but guilt and blood are so much on Vera's mind
that she leaves her husband.
On New Year's Eve, she meets Grimm, who begs
her to prevent his insanity by telling him that he did not commit the
murder. She admits to the action and her husband, overhearing her
confession, comes to her and they fall into each other's arms. |
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