It wasn't very good. Mrs Crane is married to a wealthy lawyer turned politician. She seems a bit distressed when a reporter asks her about her background. She's hiding her criminal past and she runs into her former boyfriend/accomplice when she and her husband go shopping for a mink coat. He's working as a salesman and is dating the woman modelling the coats. He tried to blackmail Mrs Crane so she kills him, but the poor model is charged with the crime and Mrs Crane is called up for jury duty. She's met the defendant and the victim and she knows the defense attorney, but all that is fine. She's made foreman of the jury.
I expected her to try to get the poor girl off, maybe breaking down and admitting in the end that she killed the guy. So it was refreshing that she was still a horrible person.
Interesting ending, I guess.
Low budget B movie. Directed by Sam Newfield under the name Sherman Scott. 60 minutes. Don't let the colorized lobby card fool you. It was black & white.
Adapted from a 1947 episode of The Whistler radio show.
Available on Pub-D-Hub if nowhere else.
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