The Woman on Trial
(1927) American
B&W : Six reels / 5960 feet
Directed by Mauritz Stiller

Cast: Pola Negri [Julie], Einar Hanson [Pierre Bouton], Arnold Kent [Gaston Napier], André Sarti [John Morland], Baby Dorothy Brock [Paul], Valentina Zimina [Henrietta], Sidney Bracy [Brideaux], Bertram Marburgh [Morland’s lawyer], Gayne Whitman [Julie’s lawyer]

Paramount Famous Lasky Corporation production; distributed by Paramount Pictures Corporation. / Associate producer B.P. Schulberg. Scenario Elsie von Koczain + [Mauritz Stiller], from the adaptation by Hope Loring of the play Confession by Ernö Wajda. Cinematography by Bert Glennon. Intertitles by Julian Johnson. Presented by Adolph Zukor and Jesse L. Lasky. / © 29 October 1927 by Paramount Famous Lasky Corporation [LP24602]. Premiere 25 September 1927 in New York, New York. Released 29 October 1927. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 format. / Silent film.

Drama.

Survival Status: The film is presumed lost: A reel of outtakes has survived and is held by The International Museum of Photography and Film at George Eastman House film archive.

Keywords: Artists - Children - Crime: Murder - Death: Murder - France: Paris (Latin Quarter) - Jealousy - Law: Attorneys, Courtrooms, Judges, Lawyers, Trials - Marriages

Listing updated: 23 August 2007.

References: McIlroy-Sweden pp. 32-33 : Website-AFI.