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Actors: Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre, Joan Lorring
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about The Verdict (1946) |
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Based on the novel by Israel Zangwill, The Verdict stars Sydney Greenstreet as respected Superintendant of Scotland Yard George Edward Grodman. Having put a man to death for a case he worked on, Grodman finds out that the one small aspect of evidence that he felt was a lie and not provable has come to pass. A clergyman can vouch for the man's innocence and this causes Grodman to be asked for his immediate resignation, making John R. Buckley the new Superintendant in charge of the case. Filled with great remorse, Grodman has some drinks with artist Victor Emmric (Peter Lorre) and the lawyer who worked the case of the wrongfully hanged man Arthur Kendall (Morton Lowry). Arthur leaves and gets into an argument with his chief politcal rival Clive Russell (Paul Cavanagh) and a girlfriend Lottie Rawson (Joan Lorring). Mrs. Benson (Rosaling Ivan), the woman in the downstairs apartment worries that something is wrong and gets Grodman to come and have a look. They find Kendall dead. It's here that Buckley starts to investigate and he becomes suspicious of almost everyone. The case is so puzzling that Grodman tags along to help Buckley and the case takes many twists and turns until Buckley comes to the conlusion that Clive Russel is the murderer. But is he? While Russel is on death row, Grodman travels the world looking for the one person who could prove he is an innocent man wrongly put to the gallows before showing all parties that all their assumptions were wrong.
--Bobby Blades, Resident Scholar
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Plot
Composition of Movie
Actual chase scenes or violence - 20%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 50%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 30%
How difficult to spot villain?
- Difficult, but some clues given
Time/Era of Movie:
- 18th century
Murder Mystery?
Yes
What % of story relates directly
to the mystery, not the subplot?
- 60%
Misc. Plotlets
- local police have IQ of houseplant
Special suspect?
- investigator him/herself
Kind of mystery?
- police procedural
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- police/lawman
Age:
- 40's-50's
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events?
Yes
Hair color?
- bald
Body type
- fat (man)
Ethnicity/Nationality
- British
How sensitive is this character?
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Intelligence
- Very much smarter than other characters
Physique
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Hair color
- brunette (Black)
Hair style
- (man) short/standard straight
Body type
- average build (man)
How much in movie?
- 60%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- British
Main Adversary
Identity:
- general circumstances
Setting
Europe
Yes
European country:
- Italy
- France
City?
Yes
City:
- London
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- non-gory references to death/punishment
Movie makes you feel...
- challenged
How many deaths in film?
- 2
How much use of techno gadgets?
- 1 (None)
Kind of violence:
- knives
Unusual forms of death
- perforation--swords/knives
Check here if B&W
Yes
Is this movie based on a
- book
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