Movies and TvShows featuring "jury-foreman" theme.
After avenging his brother's death, Frank James returns to his old ways as an outlaw to seek revenge against the man who murdered his brother. Along the way, he faces treachery, racial stereotypes, and the pursuit of justice.
When a lazy man named Tommy is summoned for jury duty, he tries to get out of it by pretending to be insane. However, his plan backfires and he ends up being selected. As the trial unfolds, he becomes convinced that the defendant is innocent and takes it upon himself to investigate the case. With the help of his fellow jurors, Tommy uncovers a conspiracy that puts him in danger and forces him to confront his own fears.
When a newspaper reporter is framed for murder, he must navigate a web of deception and false alibis to prove his innocence and save himself from the electric chair.
Upperworld is a crime drama movie set in 1930s New York City. The plot revolves around a newspaper reporter who is trying to uncover the truth behind a murder case. The investigation leads him to a high society woman and a powerful railroad magnate, and he must navigate through a web of lies, corruption, and betrayal to solve the case.
A Capone-like racketeer named Anderson, who after being chased out of one town by the authorities immediately sets up shop in another. Unable to get any tangible evidence against Anderson, DA Wayne orders his assistant Carter to dig up some dirt on the gangster boss. To do this, Carter pretends to turned crooked, joining Anderson's gang in order to accumulate evidence. Alas, Carter's girl friend Patricia knows nothing of her boyfriend's subterfuge, and she suspects the worst.
A hardened criminal is transformed into a responsible member of society after he undergoes plastic surgery.
Bill Weldon is an Ad man who craves his wife Margaret's approval of his work, instead he gets constructive (and on-target) feedback, which he hates. Things get really strange when Bill creates advertising for a wacky inventor's embalming fluid.
Perfect Strangers is a melodramatic movie set around a murder trial. The story follows a jury that becomes sequestered during the trial and their personal lives begin to intertwine. With elements of romance, suspense, and social drama, Perfect Strangers explores the relationships and dynamics among the jurors.
Jack Brookfield, a gambler with clairvoyant and hypnotic powers, is able to win at cards through his unique gift. But when he inadvertently hypnotizes young Clay Thorne, Thorne kills an enemy of Brookfield's while under a trance. No one believes Brookfield's protestations that Thorne is innocent of any murderous intent, so Brookfield teams up with retired lawyer Martin Prentice in hopes of saving the young man from the gallows.
John Nelson, a well-to-do businessman, is escorting a woman he knows as Ethel Barry to the door of her apartment suite when a man steps out of the shadows and angrily demands to know where she has been. The embarrassed Nelson excuses himself and goes to his rooms in the same hotel. The woman rushes into his apartment followed by the man who met her in the hall. The man threatens her with violence and Nelson comes to her defense. In the ensuing fight, the man is knocked out of the window and falls to his death to the pavement many stories down. He is charged with the killing and his only witness that can prove self-defense for him has disappeared, and can not be found.
Philandering actor Richard Hardell is murdered at a movie studio. His jealous wife Blanche, his director Rupert Borka, and a girl he mistreated, Helen MacDonald, all have substantial reasons for having wanted him dead.
A down-and-out lawyer gets back on his feet with help from a singer who later retains him to defend her on a murder charge.
A man who has been railroaded into prison is framed for the murder of a fellow inmate and must prove his innocence.
June Martin is a dishwasher in a California logging camp boarding house. Steve Blake fights Jed Malone for her and loses, thus casting suspicion on himself when Malone dies under cloudy circumstances.
The story of a woman on trial for her life for shooting the man who had promised to love her but had deserted her...and of a woman on the jury who refused to condemn her when eleven men had voted guilty...a woman brave enough to defy public opinion, brave enough to lose the loss of the love of her husband by baring her soul to the world in order to save the girl on trial.
A poor boy rises to power in politics.
A convicted murderer uses an ancient curse to take his revenge on those responsible for sending him to prison.
A man goes to a loan shark to finance his family's vacation.
A powerful publisher John Mitchell whose pursuit of sensational headlines at the expense of all else takes a personal toll when his daughter Joan is implicated in a murder.
After a vaudeville performer is murdered backstage, framed-up evidence lead the police to arrest a troupe member. At his trial, Hermann, a Scandinavian clown known as Beppo, is the lone juror holding out against conviction and pleading for his innocence and acquittal.