Entertainment & Sports
Jan. 27, 2023
Stream it tonight: Murder! (1930)
Murder! emphasizes the close relationship between adversarial trials and theatrical productions, a connection that dates back to Aristotle.
Paul Bergman
Professor Emeritus
UCLA School of Law
Email: bergman@law.ucla.edu
Paul continues teaching evidence.
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.
Why watch? An early Hitchcock talkie includes surreal courtroom scenes, the impact of racial prejudice and a killer ending.
Diana Baring is tried for the grisly murder of fellow acting troupe member Edna Druce. The jurors' heads swivel back and forth in unison as they listen to testimony and the barristers' arguments. (Progressively for 1930, the defending barrister is female and the jury includes men and women.)
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