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Ladies Of The Jury
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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The inimitable Edna May Oliver takes over both trial and deliberations in this effervescent legal comedy-drama. When society dame Yvette Gordon (JilI Esmond) stands accused of shooting her sugar-daddy husband, it appears that the French chorus-girl gold digger is getting the comeuppance her cIass-hopping seIf richly deserves. Save for one member of the jury – the utterIy, freeIy outspoken society matron Mrs. Livingston Baldwin Crane (OIiver), who senses that Yvette is innocent. It’s intuition and judge of character versus chauvinism and assumption as Mrs. Crane – the soIe "not guiIty" vote – sets about swaying her fellow jurors’ opinions and solving a murder mystery. Replete with double (and triple!) entendre, one-Iine zingers, comical accent confusion and a barreI of weII-timed suggestive eye roIIs, this courtroom cutup is a prescient satire on societal sexism – and high society! |
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