Rating: 6,2
Runtime: 65 min
Language: English , German
Country: USA
Color: Black & White
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0025333/
Director: William Keighley
Cast:
Ruth Chatterton as Francoise
Adolphe Menjou as Paul
Claire Dodd as Odette
George Barbier as Chautard
Douglas Dumbrille as Cartier
Noel Madison as Castelli
Henry O'Neill as Doctor
Phillip Reed as The Dunken Young Man at the Party
Henry Kolker as Henri Marcher
Walter Pidgeon as Florestan
Clay Clement as The Police Inspector
Description: Journal of a Crime is a 1934 American Pre-Code
film, produced by First National Pictures, directed by William Keighley,
and starring Ruth Chatterton, Adolphe Menjou, and Claire Dodd. The film
is a remake of the 1933 French film, Une vie perdue.
Plot:
Francoise is a jealous wife who spies on her playwright husband, Paul,
one evening after a play and overhears him and his lover Odette, the
star of the show, quarreling in the street about him leaving his wife.
He protests because he does not want to hurt his wife. Paul comes home
at 3am and finds that Francoise has waited up for him. Unbeknownst to
him, she is distressed at the news and pretends that she knows nothing
of the affair. She attempts to seduce him but fails. The more he tries
to tell her that he's leaving her, she become increasingly agitated,
speaking more rapidly as she backs out the door and leaves him alone in
the bedroom.
The next morning, Francoise sees a lawyer to find out how she can keep
Paul from divorcing her and learns that there is nothing legally she can
do to compel him to stay. That night at the theater, Paul tries to tell
Odette why he was not able to tell Francoise he is leaving her. She is
upset as he has promised and failed at this before. He promises to leave
Francoise that night and Odette tells him that she will not kiss him
again until he has left. Later during the rehearsel, a shot rings and
Odette falls to the floor dead. The police are summoned and arrest
Castelli, a man who had robbed a bank and killed a teller earlier that
day and hid in the theater. However, he swears that he does not know
Odette and he did not kill her.
As Paul leaves the theater, he finds his own gun tossed into a fire
bucket full of water and immediately knows that his wife committed the
murder. Later that evening, he confronts her and calls her a fiend. She
tells him that she intends not to say anything and at first he threatens
to turn her in to the police. Instead he tells her that he will stay
and keep her secret to watch her fall apart.
Over the months, Françoise becomes weighted down by her guild. When she
learns that Castelli has been sentenced to death for the murder of
Odette, she goes to the district attorney and asks for permission to see
the condemned man. Her request is granted and she confesses to him that
she murdered Odette. He tells her that she should go away and to never
mention it again, he would have been executed for killing the bank
teller anyway.
Six month later Paul tells Francoise that she is the only person
suffering more than him but as long as she won't confess, she will
continue to die inside.
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