Product Description

Jean Parker loved her work, and to this day, it still shows. The radiant young actress moved on to a film career lasting 35 years with over 80 films. Her roles spanned a broad range of feminine characters; from wide-eyed ingénues, to tragic heroines, from gypsies to country girls, from wisecracking amateur detectives to hard-boiled tough girls. While never a big star in films, Parker did considerably better on stage, appearing in the west-coast productions of such hits as Dream Girl and Born Yesterday.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #81069 in DVD
• Published on: 2005
• Released on: 2005-03-21
• Rating: Unrated
• Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
• Formats: Black & White, Collector's Edition, Flash, Full length, Full Screen, Original recording remastered, Restored, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Subtitled in: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 55 minutes

From the Studio
This DVD set has the lovely Jean Parker as the title character, an innocent girl on death row for a crime she didn’t commit. Experience this nail biting film noir drama, which has you guessing who the killer is right till the end.

THE PLOT: Jean Parker plays the damsel in distress; she has been accused of murdering a man who had been blackmailing her for a while. All clues lead to her being the murderer, but she denies it right till the end- till she is being taken to the electric chair. Here is a complete review of the film included in this incredible DVD. A young woman, Mary Logan (Jean Parker), is accused of murdering a blackmailer who threatens to tell her boss, Mr. Gregory, that she was the daughter of Tom Logan, a racketeer he prosecuted. Although she claims she was framed. Her love interest, a doctor, Dr. Dwight Bradford (Douglass Fowley), who is conducting experiments on reviving the dead, also happens to be the state's executioner, and is assigned to pull the switch when she is strapped into the electric chair. A famous criminologist, Charles Finch (Lionel Atwill), believing her to be innocent, rushes to investigate the case and clear her before her execution date. Once he figures out who really dunit he and Mary's sister (Marcia Mae Jones) race against the warden's wall clock to get the governor to postpone the execution while Mary's boyfriend, the state executioner, procrastinates on throwing the switch.

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Customer Reviews

Jean Parker Classic
Jean Parker was a hollywood legend that for some reason time forgot. This is one of her earlier works and she looks simply beautiful as the girl wrongly accused of killing the man who was blackmailing her. It goes without saying that she gets sentenced to death but that she gets sprung at the last minute by a man who loves her and with whom she will obviously fall in love. Sure, it's a forumla holywood picture but it's a good one and the acting is top rate. It's also well edited and the tension builds nicely.

DVD-R Format
This DVD is manufactured in the DVD-R format. Amazon should give the consumer the choice of whether to purchase this movie or not by providing ALL of the important information about the DVD.

Classic Studio Production
I'm not sure why studios stopped making this genre of movie. The formula almost always works well. The basic deal is that someone has to be arrested and convicted of a murder they didn't commit, sentenced to the electric chair and then rescued at the last minute when the real killer is found out.

It works every single time. Yet, other than Eastwood's True Crime we almost never see it anymore.

This film is one of more than a dozen movies made on teh same theme in the 1930s and does the job very well, with good noir cinematography and a last minute surprise ending.

The remastering is very high end.