Monday, August 18, 2008

The Lady in Question (1940)

The plot for this one is fairly simple and straightforward: a French family man is excited to finally be chosen for jury duty and the woman (Rita Hayworth) on trial is accused of having murdered her lover. The main guy (a la Twelve Angry Men) stonewalls the jury until they acquit the woman. The man then feels sorry for the woman because she's been outcast regardless of the verdict and he hires her to work in his bike shop, with her using a different name and him not telling his family who she really is. Mild hilarity about hiding her identity ensues but the interesting part of the film is the exploration of how we judge people. How we act around people who may be guilty of something when they start to encroach upon our personal space. Interesting to watch if it's on tv (which is why I watched it).

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