Convicted

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Convicted is a 1931 American pre-Code film directed by Christy Cabanne and starring Aileen Pringle and Jameson Thomas.

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Convicted is a 1931 American pre-Code film directed by Christy Cabanne and starring Aileen Pringle and Jameson Thomas.

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Plot

Tony Blair, a producer of Broadway plays, is murdered on a California-bound passenger liner, and a series of events leads to an assumption that Claire Norvelle has committed the killing. Despite the fact that Blair was an obnoxious character, murder is murder and Barbara is accused of the crime. Complications arise when another murder occurs. The startling solution clears Barbara and provides a surprising explanation of the two murders.

Production

"The production company credit on-screen reads: "Produced by Supreme Features, Inc, LTD. Alfred T. Mannon, Pres." According to the main title, production facilities were located at Tec-Art Studio, Inc., which was located on Melrose Avenue in Hollywood. Although much of the film was shot on location aboard a passenger ship. Known as Tec-Art Studio in the 1920 and early 1930s, through its history the lot has been known variously as Clune Studio, Fiction Studios, Tec-Art, California Studio, Producers Studio, and Raleigh Studios."

Cast

Aileen Pringle as Claire Norville

Jameson Thomas as Bruce Allan

Dorothy Christy as Constance Forbes

Richard Tucker as Tony Blair

Harry Myers as Sturgeon

Niles Welch as Roy Fenton

Jack Mower as Henderson

Wilfred Lucas as Captain Hammond

Wild Bill Elliott (credited as Gordon Elliott) as Passenger

Reception

The Motion Picture Guide, first published in 1985, describes Convicted as a "nicely developed murder mystery". However, in his 2010 biography and guide Wild Bill Elliot: A Complete Filmography, author Gene Blottner characterizes the film as "an adequate but undistinguished low-budget murder mystery".

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Notable quotes

“To remember that once we were near the salvation of Christ, so near that our right hand might have touched and taken it, and after all that hand was withheld; this is a memory which will enhance remorse forever.”
— William Adams, reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 165.
“It is well known to all experienced minds that our firmest convictions are often dependent on subtle impressions for which words are quite too coarse a medium.”
— George Eliot, Adam Bede (1859)
“Ninety-five per cent of modern people have no ideas or convictions of their own. Five per cent have views and convictions but again ninety-five per cent of these do not dare to stand up for them. There are five per cent of five per cent who have courage and convictions. These make history for good or evil.”
— Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn, The Menace of the Herd (1943), p. 210
“Es ist nicht der Kampf der Meinungen, welcher die Geschichte so gewaltthätig gemacht hat, sondern der Kampf des Glaubens an die Meinungen, das heisst der Ueberzeugungen.”
— Translation: It is not the struggle of opinions that has made history so violent, but rather the struggle of belief in opinions, that is, the struggle of convictions.
“The most human thing about anyone is a thing he learns and … and earns. It’s a thing he can’t have when he’s very young; if he gets it at all, he gets it after a long search and a deep conviction. After that it’s truly part of him as long as he lives.”
— Theodore Sturgeon, More Than Human, Chapter 3, p. 184 (1953)
“Conviction, it turns out, is a luxury of those standing on the sidelines.”
— A Beautiful Mind (film)

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