Using skills he has learned in the theatre, Sir John investigates the murder with the help of the stage manager Ted Markham ( Edward Chapman) and his wife Doucie ( Phyllis Konstam). She is beautiful, and seems far too honest and straightforward to be a criminal of any kind. He discovers Diana has been a fan of his since childhood. Sir John feels responsible, as he had recommended that Diana take the touring job in order for her to get more experience. One juror, Sir John Menier ( Herbert Marshall), a celebrated actor-manager, seems sure she must be innocent, but is brow-beaten into voting "guilty" along with the rest of the jury. One or two feel that she may have a severe mental illness which means that she really does have no memory of killing the other woman, but they are convinced that she should still be hanged lest she strike again. Diana withholds some important information deliberately, to protect something about the identity of a man that she will not name.Īt her trial most of the jury are certain she is guilty. The two young women are thought to have been rivals, and the police arrest her. The poker used to commit the murder is at Diana's feet, but she has no memory of what happened during the minutes the crime was committed. It was Hitchcock's third all- talkie film, after Blackmail (1929) and Juno and the Paycock (1930).ĭiana Baring ( Norah Baring), a young actress in a travelling theatre troupe, is found in a daze with blood on her clothes, sitting by the murdered body of another young actress, Edna Druce. Mycroft, it is based on the 1928 novel Enter Sir John by Clemence Dane and Helen Simpson. Written by Hitchcock, his wife Alma Reville and Walter C. Murder! is a 1930 British thriller film co-written and directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Herbert Marshall, Norah Baring and Edward Chapman.
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