Cause Célèbre

Year: 1987

Runtime: 109 mins

Language: English

Director: John Gorrie

RomanceDrama

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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