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Après qu'un homme innocent ait été exécuté dans une affaire dont il était responsable, un surintendant de Scotland Yard se retrouve à enquêter sur le meurtre de son témoin clé.Après qu'un homme innocent ait été exécuté dans une affaire dont il était responsable, un surintendant de Scotland Yard se retrouve à enquêter sur le meurtre de son témoin clé.Après qu'un homme innocent ait été exécuté dans une affaire dont il était responsable, un surintendant de Scotland Yard se retrouve à enquêter sur le meurtre de son témoin clé.
Jimmy Aubrey
- Newsboy
- (uncredited)
Leah Baird
- French Charwoman
- (uncredited)
Wilson Benge
- Cockney
- (uncredited)
Barry Bernard
- Pub Keeper
- (uncredited)
Billy Bletcher
- Gravedigger
- (uncredited)
Colin Campbell
- Simpkins
- (uncredited)
Herbert Clifton
- Englishman
- (uncredited)
Histoire
Le saviez-vous
- AnecdotesFeature directorial debut of Don Siegel.
- GaffesThe story, set in the 1890s, makes reference to the Courts of Appeal. These courts, however, were not established in the UK until 1907. Before 1907 only the Home Secretary could commute a death sentence.
- Citations
Supt. George Edward Grodman: I feel as if I were drinking at my own wake.
- ConnexionsReferenced in Burke's Law: Who Killed Merlin the Great? (1964)
Commentaire en vedette
When historians talk about the great screen pairings, one hears Tracy and Hepburn and Bogart and Bacall tossed around, as well as other male-female combinations. One of the truly great screen pairings of all time was Sydney Greenstreet and Peter Lorre - the former a large, sinister-looking man, and the latter a small, sinister-looking man with a quirky voice. They made nine films together, and when I see their names in a cast list, I know not to miss the movie.
"The Verdict," made in 1946, is a heavily atmospheric mystery set around 1890, when Supt. George Edward Grodman (Greenstreet) inadvertently sends an innocent man to the gallows for a woman's death and loses his job. The man claimed he had an alibi, but the person wasn't found until after the hanging. After many years in service, Grodman leaves with a blemish on his reputation. Replacing him is his ambitious nemesis, Supt. John R. Buckley (George Coulouris). Grodman begins to write the stories of his various cases, in the hopes that it can serve as a primer for police investigations.
When Arthur Kendall is murdered across the street from him, Grodman is pulled into the investigation, since Kendall's landlady (Rosalind Ivan) summoned him to help her get into the room. Kendall's aunt was the murder victim in the case where the innocent man was hanged. Before Kendall was killed, he visited Grodman, along with Grodman's friend Peter Emmric (Lorre) who lives in the same house as Kendall, and a politician, Clive Russell (Paul Cavanagh), who hates Kendall. Russell and Kendall come to blows outside of Grodman's house. Grodman now finds himself in a position of helping the man who replaced him.
This is an very clever mystery, brought up a few levels by the acting of Greenstreet and Lorre. Paul Cavanagh and George Coulouris turn in good performances in smaller roles, and Joan Lorring is fine as a dance hall girl who was involved with Kendall. Though not a great beauty, she has a great figure and conveys a low class background.
Highly recommended. With the Victorian times, the heavy fog, and the presence of Cavanagh and Coulouris, the film reminds one of the Sherlock Holmes movies.
"The Verdict," made in 1946, is a heavily atmospheric mystery set around 1890, when Supt. George Edward Grodman (Greenstreet) inadvertently sends an innocent man to the gallows for a woman's death and loses his job. The man claimed he had an alibi, but the person wasn't found until after the hanging. After many years in service, Grodman leaves with a blemish on his reputation. Replacing him is his ambitious nemesis, Supt. John R. Buckley (George Coulouris). Grodman begins to write the stories of his various cases, in the hopes that it can serve as a primer for police investigations.
When Arthur Kendall is murdered across the street from him, Grodman is pulled into the investigation, since Kendall's landlady (Rosalind Ivan) summoned him to help her get into the room. Kendall's aunt was the murder victim in the case where the innocent man was hanged. Before Kendall was killed, he visited Grodman, along with Grodman's friend Peter Emmric (Lorre) who lives in the same house as Kendall, and a politician, Clive Russell (Paul Cavanagh), who hates Kendall. Russell and Kendall come to blows outside of Grodman's house. Grodman now finds himself in a position of helping the man who replaced him.
This is an very clever mystery, brought up a few levels by the acting of Greenstreet and Lorre. Paul Cavanagh and George Coulouris turn in good performances in smaller roles, and Joan Lorring is fine as a dance hall girl who was involved with Kendall. Though not a great beauty, she has a great figure and conveys a low class background.
Highly recommended. With the Victorian times, the heavy fog, and the presence of Cavanagh and Coulouris, the film reminds one of the Sherlock Holmes movies.
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- Durée1 heure 26 minutes
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