Entertainment & Sports
Sep. 30, 2022
Stream it Tonight! Stranger on the Third Floor (1940)
Surely many witnesses have second thoughts when their testimony results in harsh sentences, and some jurors may make up their minds before a case is submitted to them.
Michael Asimow
Professor
UCLA School of Law
Email: asimow@law.ucla.edu
Michael is Dean's Executive professor of law at Santa Clara Law School, teaching contracts as well as law and popular culture.
Paul Bergman
Professor Emeritus
UCLA School of Law
Email: bergman@law.ucla.edu
Paul continues teaching evidence.
Why Watch? In what is generally regarded as the first film noir, a bizarre dream has murderous consequences.
Mike Ward's testimony results in the conviction of Joe Briggs (Elisha Cook Jr.) for murdering a café owner. Briggs testifies to his innocence, but the jurors are so disinterested that the judge tells them to "follow the evidence with as much intelligence as you've got." Briggs is convicted and sentenced to death.
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