

55 minutes
4/13/1929
Harvey Manning is placed on trial for the murder of Jack Winfield, his closest friend, whose body was found in the Manning home. During the trial, the prosecuting and the defense attorneys put forward sharply different versions of the character of Manning and his wife, Viola, and of the events leading up to the murder. The jury returns a verdict of guilty, but a young girl then comes forward and confesses that she killed Winfield for having wronged her.

Mary Duncan
as Viola

Edmund Lowe
as Harvey Manning

Warner Baxter
as Jack Winfield

Natalie Moorhead
as Frances Thornton

Earle Foxe
as Howard Thornton
Donald Gallaher
as Spencer

Florence Lake
as Myrtle

Sylvia Sidney
as Valerie Briand

Selmer Jackson
as King (defense attorney)

Nigel De Brulier
as Maynard

Stepin Fetchit
as Janitor

DeWitt Jennings
as Paducah

Arthur Stone
as Crane

Lola Salvi
as Maid
George Lamont
as Traynor
Dolores Johnson
as Anna
Natalie Warfield
as Aline Craig
Jack Jordan
as Reporter
Marian Spitzer
as Reporter

Stanley Blystone
as Reporter

Stuart Erwin
as Reporter

Frank Brownlee
as Bit Part (uncredited)
Bobby Heck
as Bit Part (uncredited)

Karen Morley
as Bit Part (uncredited)

Purnell Pratt
as Dist. Atty. Marston