Year: 1987
Runtime: 109 mins
Language: English
Director: John Gorrie
Alma Rattenbury (Helen Mirren), an older woman whose ailing husband is found bludgeoned to death, confesses to the murder despite evidence pointing to her much‑younger lover. The 1935 trial, which shocked England, pits her public condemnation for adultery against lawyer T.J. O’Connor’s (David Suchet) belief she can be cleared.
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