The Unguarded Hour (1936) (original) (raw)
Did Samuel Metford push his wife from Dover Cliff? Lady Helen Dearden saw the Metfords there and knows the woman�s death was an accident. If she testifies in court, an innocent man avoids the gallows. Yet one thing will die if she testifies � her barrister husband�s career. Lady Helen had secretly gone to Dover to pay off the blackmailer who possessed letters linking her husband romantically to a married woman. Her trust in her spouse is further tested when he is later accused of killing the woman addressed in the letters. Did Lady Helen wed a murderer? Twists abound in this luminous whodunit ...(more)
Did Samuel Metford push his wife from Dover Cliff? Lady Helen Dearden saw the Metfords there and knows the woman�s death was an accident. If she testifies in court, an innocent man avoids the gallows. Yet one thing will die if she testifies � her barrister husband�s career. Lady Helen had secretly gone to Dover to pay off the blackmailer who possessed letters linking her husband romantically to a married woman. Her trust in her spouse is further tested when he is later accused of killing the woman addressed in the letters. Did Lady Helen wed a murderer? Twists abound in this luminous whodunit featuring Loretta Young and Franchot Tone as the sophisticated, increasingly disquieted Deardens. (less)
Director: Sam Wood
Writers: Howard Emmett Rogers, Leon Gordon, Ladislas Fodor, Horace Jackson
Starring: Loretta Young, Franchot Tone, Lewis Stone, Roland Young, Jessie Ralph, Dudley Digges
Producers: Lawrence Weingarten, Sam Wood
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