Murder! (1930)
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
When actress Diana Baring is found in a daze beside her colleague’s murdered body, all evidence points to her guilt. During the trial, juror Sir John Menier doubts the verdict, but yields to pressure. Haunted by remorse, he launches his own investigation.
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The construction of Reginald Rose's teleplay departs from Hitchcock's Murder! (Sir John versus the chorus of peers), Sidney Lumet in his first film records it as a meticulous laboratory experiment, a clammy orchestra.
The lass sits in her cell like Dreyer�s Joan, cross-shaped shadow and all, prosecution and defense come and go and then it�s up to the jury to decide in a pulsing little set-piece that�s like 12 Angry Men compressed to ten minutes.