It is late night when the dwellers of a street hear a scream in the apartment of the actress Mary Baring (Olga Tschechowa). A police officer arrives, and the neighbors see Mary dazed and confused, with blood on her clothes and on a poker, and the body of her colleague Ellen Moore on the floor. An empty bottle of brandy is on the table and Mary is in shock with no recollection of what happened. The drunken Mr. Moore says that Mary and Ellen were rivals in the theater and the police take Mary to the precinct. There is a trial, and the jurors believe Mary is guilty, but the famous actor Sir John Menier (Alfred Abel) believes she is not guilty. However, he is not able to change the position of the other jurors and is forced to change his vote to guilty. Mary is sentenced to the gallows, but Sir John decides to conduct his own investigation to prove that Mary is innocent.
"Mary" (1931) is a German spoken remake of "Murder!" (1930) that was shot simultaneously on the same sets of "Murder!" by Alfred Hitchcock with a German-speaking cast. The plot is interesting, about a murder and the woman accused and considered guilty by the jurors. There is one moment, when Sir John Menier exposes his opinion, that seems to be the inspiration to "12 Angry Men" (1957) when only one juror disagrees from the others. The real killer is a weird guy, wearing a dress to perform at the circus. After watching "Mary", I have finally finished to see or see again all the Alfred Hitchcock features and written a review in IMDb for each one. My vote is seven.
Title (Brazil): "Mary"
