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drama, USA,
1934,
70 min.Režie:
Ben Hecht, Charles MacArthurHerci:
Claude Rains,
Margová,
Whitney Bourne,
Stanley Ridges,
Leslie Adams,
více...He had tired of her - and for that he was sorry! He was tied to her - and for that he hated her!Three Furies rise from the blood of a woman who has been murdered and sweep through the city, hovering over scenes of violence and sin. Attorney Lee Gentry is called the "Champion of the Damned" because he obtains acquittals for guilty criminals. The appellation pleases him, however, as he has no conscience regarding his work and feels that "the only crime punishable by death is stupidity." Impatient to end his relationship with Spanish dancer Carmen Brown, he contrives a plan to make it appear as if she were having an affair with her old flame, Eddie White. This done, he picks up his relationship with glamorous socialite Katy Costello. Distraught over their break-up, Carmen threatens suicide. When Gentry visits her, he surreptitiously places her pistol in his pocket. Carmen has been made aware of Gentry's ruse by her friend Buster Malloy, and accuses him of deceit, but he is unmoved. As he leaves, Carmen throws herself at him, and in a struggle for the gun, Gentry accidentally shoots her. Thinking he has killed her, Gentry loses his smugness, and his "alter-ego" appears as an apparition and guides him through a cover-up of the murder. When the phone rings, Gentry answers and alters his voice, hoping to persuade the caller that Carmen had a new gentleman caller during the hour of her death. He then embellishes his alibi by attending a movie theater, and meeting with Buster to complain that he has not been able to contact Carmen for days. Gentry returns to Katy and confesses his deed to her, knowing she is discreet. After he outwits the grand jury investigators, Gentry attends Carmen's nightclub to maintain his cover, but meets up with Della, a friend of Carmen who saw him at the movie theater on the day of Carmen's death. Gentry becomes unnerved, and when Della's boyfriend, Eddie White, appears, she tells him that Gentry has been harassing her. Eddie hits Gentry, and as Gentry falls back, he shoots Eddie. Dazed, Gentry sees Carmen begin her performance as the police take him away, and realizes that she is alive after all. At the police station, Gentry's previous behavior toward Eddie makes his shooting seem like premeditated murder. Gentry's newly-found conscience advises him to take his own life, but a policeman takes the gun away from him before he can pull the trigger. Gentry's conscience denounces him as a coward while the Furies laugh at him.
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