A wife shoots her husband's mistress. Afterwards, she is tormented by guilt when someone else is blamed for the crime.A wife shoots her husband's mistress. Afterwards, she is tormented by guilt when someone else is blamed for the crime.A wife shoots her husband's mistress. Afterwards, she is tormented by guilt when someone else is blamed for the crime.
- Germaine Cartier
- (as Douglas Dumbrille)
- Frau Winterstein
- (as Elsa Jansen)
- Paul's Valet
- (uncredited)
- Chorus Girl
- (uncredited)
- Man at Play Party
- (uncredited)
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- TriviaThe opera shown on the theatrical posters in the opening scenes is "Adelia," by Donizetti.
- GoofsSomeone as "highly intelligent" as Francoise would not have disposed of the murder weapon in a bucket of water, where someone would be sure to find it.
- Quotes
Dinner Guest: The way I look at it, Mr. Attorney General, there will be crimes of passion as long as there is passion.
Germaine Cartier: In my opinion, madame, the urge to kill has roots in hatred, rather than in passion or in love. Hatred in it's most severe form. Jealousy. Don't you agree with me?
Francoise Moliet: Well, you may be right, Mr. Attorney General. I don't know, but, a woman - or a man - may have a deeper motive for killing than jealousy or even love. A human being could kill because she herself has first been killed. Before she kills, the other two, the victim and her accomplice, must have killed her soul. Murdered it. A soul that murders in it's turn.
- Crazy creditsOpening credits are shown on the pages of a book, a reference to the "journal" in the title.
- ConnectionsRemake of Une vie perdue (1933)
- BANG! -
Then the crime takes place, and by amazing coincidence a bank robber just happens to be hanging around backstage to take the fall for the real culprit. The coincidences now start piling on faster and faster, crammed into an incredible 64 minutes whose tortuous twists and turns are probably the result of the writing being on the wall about the new Production Code just months away. The code wasn't in force yet, so both adultery and murder go unpunished; but the narrative that follows twists itself into greater and greater contortions in seeming anticipation of Joseph Breen's coming blue pencil.
- richardchatten
- Mar 17, 2017
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- Dnevnik zlocina
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- Runtime1 hour 5 minutes
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- 1.37 : 1