This effort is solid even though Ginger Rogers never dances one step. Even though she and Mr Morgan are the stars, this movies focus is more on the jury. You could call it 12 Angry Men light.
It breaks all the rules for a jury. Don't talk about the case among yourselves becomes wait until the guards are all out of the room and discuss it endlessly. While the script is not as powerful as the Fonda classic, this one has it's points.
It goes into more personal stuff about each person than you'd expect. I feel sorry for the guard in charge of communicating with the outside folks when the jury is sequestered. They ask him to do a lot of things for sure.
Still, the busy body type of script makes the movie more interesting. Ginger Rogers does a good job in this one, being clever yet ordinary. The movie does make a lot of hints at what was viewed in 1950 as to how marriages are supposed to be. Divorce gets mentioned a lot too.
While a period piece, the film has some character actors who you will know including one from Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea though his role as DA is really small.
It breaks all the rules for a jury. Don't talk about the case among yourselves becomes wait until the guards are all out of the room and discuss it endlessly. While the script is not as powerful as the Fonda classic, this one has it's points.
It goes into more personal stuff about each person than you'd expect. I feel sorry for the guard in charge of communicating with the outside folks when the jury is sequestered. They ask him to do a lot of things for sure.
Still, the busy body type of script makes the movie more interesting. Ginger Rogers does a good job in this one, being clever yet ordinary. The movie does make a lot of hints at what was viewed in 1950 as to how marriages are supposed to be. Divorce gets mentioned a lot too.
While a period piece, the film has some character actors who you will know including one from Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea though his role as DA is really small.