A lawyer destroys his own case when he realizes the murderer is the son he abandoned.
At trial the prosecuting attorney makes a startling confession: the defendant is his son whose pitiful fate led him to murder. The attorney left the young man's pregnant mother, and the unwed poor thing had to fight against a hostile world.
Direction
Antoine brings naturalist grit to silent melodrama.
Acting
Joubé's courtroom breakdown still wrecks.
Director
André Antoine
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