Word: murderess
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mature, heavy, but still indubitably heroic. As a police inspector he is forced to inquire into the double murder of his own wife and her paramour. For a while suspicion falls on Mr. Farnum's daughter (by an earlier marriage), but this pretty thing is no more a murderess than she seems. When the case has been solved, you are left with two striking thoughts: 1) A convenient and unusual thing to have behind the false wall of a private vault is the boudoir of your mistress; 2) very mysterious shooting may be accomplished by planning to have...
...plot of "Her Private Affair" involves the murder of a man who had caught the heroine (Miss Harding, of course) in an indiscreet moment. Miss Harding is the charming murderess, and her subsequent trials and tribulations as she tries to work out her life, with all its complications of her con- science, as well as of relations with her husband, friends, and an innocent man suspected of the murder, form the basis of the story. Of course, the problems are solved happily in the end, but nevertheless suspense is extraordinarily well maintained...
...pesky women. One of these vampires marries him while they are both in an alcoholic stupor. A second slinks dangerously in and out until murdered by a third. The wife nobly assumes the guilt, is exonerated under the unwritten law, and leaves her husband with the sobbing little murderess. Conceived by a vaudeville actress, Winnie Baldwin, this pastiche of variety show emotions and humors succeeds in being very elaborate balderdash...
Madame X (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). When the heroine, drunken, degraded, cast off by her husband and forbidden to see her son, screams to the bully who has beaten her that some day her son will be big enough to revenge her?when she is brought to court a murderess, too poor to hire a lawyer, and the judge appoints to defend her a handsome young man, yes, the son himself?and when the young man passionately and skillfully pleads the cause of the outcast woman?it all seems, on cool reflection, too crude to be true. But audiences...
Female to Guillotine. Not for 41 years has the head of a woman been legally detached in France. Though murderesses have abounded, one and all have successfully pleaded: 1) Faithlessness of the murdered man; 2) Insanity; or 3) Beauty. But last week there was sentenced to the guillotine in Paris a Serbian murderess, Junka Kures, neither insane nor beautiful, and unbetrayed...