Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...order with a witness-stand confession. The picture is populated with Bogart's standard collection of pool-sharks, fifty-year old newsboys named "Junior," and punch-drunk bartenders, but the big star is the camera, which pokes behind garbage cans, into alleyways, and peers around the courtroom with far more than usual perception...
After seven weeks of listening to evidence, 14 hours of deliberation, the jury had made up its mind. There was absolute silence in Federal Judge Edward M. Curran's Washington courtroom as silver-haired Mildred ("Axis Sally") Gillars walked in, smiled faintly, and waited to hear the jury's decision. The verdict: guilty of treason against...
...social propaganda Knock on Any Door is very nearly a dud. But with the rage, sweat, rhetoric and kinetic screen personality of Lawyer Bogart to pull it together, it becomes in the last few reels a fairly exciting courtroom drama...
...also heard government witnesses describe Miss Gillars as a willing and highly paid propagandist for the Nazis, and one who had done her insinuating best to undermine the morale of U.S. troops in Africa and Italy. The jury could be forgiven for keeping its eyes dry through her courtroom performance...
...courtroom known as the Solemn Hall, in Sofia's grey Palace of Justice, 15 Protestant pastors went on trial last week on trumped-up charges of treason, espionage and black marketeering. This time, the Communists were less hostile to foreign observers than they had been during the hasty trial of Joseph Cardinal Mindszenty. The world watched the slow, orderly proceedings at Sofia through 25 foreign correspondents and two official U.S. and British observers. But as one churchman after another took the stand and wept, shouted and whispered his "confession" and his "guilt," the world no more understood this trial...