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.
A man who has been railroaded into prison is framed for the murder of a fellow inmate and must prove his innocence.
This Universal programmer was based on a Collier's Magazine story by journalist Quentin Reynolds. This story in turn was ostensibly based on a true incident, in which a gangster "returned from the dead" to save an innocent young man from the electric chair. The nurse of the film's title is Katharine McDonald, who falls in love with her prizefighter-patient Lee Burke as he recovers from a beating received in a fixed prizefight. Katharine must fend off the advances of criminal attorney John Dodge, another patient who also loves her and becomes jealous of Lee. But when Lee is framed for the murder of his disgruntled manager, Slice, by a henchman of the fight-fix leader, Joe Largo, Dodge takes on his defense and works with Katherine to discover the real killer. Convicted and sentenced to death, Burke is about to walk the "last mile", as Katharine encourages mortally wounded Largo to a deathbed confession.
Society matron Mrs. Livingston Baldwin Crane is selected as a juror in the trial of former chorus girl Yvette Gordon, who's accused of murdering her rich older husband. In court and during deliberations, Mrs. Crane proves to be a disruptive and unorthodox juror.
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.
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 young woman graduates from a New York City law school, returns to her small hometown, and finds her first case is defending a childhood friend accused of murder. Director Lewis Seiler's 1936 courtroom drama stars Claire Trevor, Isabel Jewell, Michael Whalen, Gene Lockhart, Eric Linden, Charles Middleton, Edward Brophy, Kathleen Lockhart, Guinn Williams, El Brendel, Sterling Holloway, Ray Brown, Howard Hickman, Frank McGlynn Sr., Charles Waldron Sr., Spencer Charters and Eily Malyon.
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.
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.
A compulsive liar admits to a killing she didn't commit so her husband, a lawyer, can clear her and build a reputation for himself.
A hardened criminal is transformed into a responsible member of society after he undergoes plastic surgery.
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.
Talkie about a maid who is accused of killing the lady of the house
Gildersleeve has jury duty.
A poor boy rises to power in politics.
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.
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.
A convicted murderer uses an ancient curse to take his revenge on those responsible for sending him to prison.
Injured scientist Eric Godfrey asks his protege to give him a fatal dose of opiates to end his misery. When he dies the doctor is accused of murder.