TRUE CONFESSION.

Helen Bartlett (Carole Lombard) is the wife of the honest lawyer Ken (Fred MacMurray) She is forced to get a job as a secretary for businessman Otto Krayler (John T. Murray), a family friend. She returns with her friend Daisy McClure (Una Merkel) only to find that he has been killed and $12,000 of missing money is the supposed motive. Ken represents Helen at the trial and believes that there is no way that the jury will believe that Helen did not commit the murder.

Credits

Directed by
Wesley Ruggles
Written by
Claude Binyon
Cast
Carole Lombard, Fritz Feld, Hattie McDaniel, Una Merkel, John Barrymore, Fred MacMurray, Toby Wing, Irving Bacon, Lynne Overman, Porter Hall, Richard Carle, Diana Serra Cary, Edgar Kennedy
Produced by
Albert Lewin
Cinematography
Ted Tetzlaff
Music
Sam Coslow
Edited by
Paul Weatherwax
Complete catalog record
TRUE CONFESSION. A Wesley Ruggles Production. Presented by Adolph Zukor. 1937. 9 reels, sd. Based on a play by Louis Verneuil and Georges Berr. Credits: Producer, Albert Lewin; director, Wesley Ruggles; screenplay, Claude Binyon; editor, Paul Weatherwax; music director, Boris Morros; original music, Frederick Hollander. Paramount Pictures, Inc.; 24Dec37; LP7698.

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