True Confession (1937)

Comedy

Helen and Ken are a pretty strange couple. She is a pathological liar, and he is a scrupulously honest, and therefore unsuccessful lawyer. Helen starts a new job, and when her employer is found dead, all the circumstantial evidence points at her. She is put on trial for murder, and her husband defends her. He thinks she is lying again when she says she didn't do it, and insists she plead that she did, but in self defense. Charlie, a shady, odd character who may or may not know something about what really happened, hangs around the courtroom and jail making rude comments and noises. After Helen is acquitted, he tries to blackmail them.

Updated May 25 2020

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US -

1937-12-24

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Keywords:

liar screwball marly horse

FACTS

Runtime: 85 mins Rating: 6.5

Cast

Carole Lombard

Helen Bartlett

Tom Dugan

Typewriter Man

Fred MacMurray

Kenneth Bartlett

Hattie McDaniel

Ella

Fritz Feld

Butler

Una Merkel

Daisy McClure

Porter Hall

Mr. Hartman, Prosecutor

Richard Carle

Judge