The Witness Chair
(1936)
★ 6.6 IMDb · 7 votes
Year: 1936
Runtime: 64 мин
Country: United States of America
Director: George Nichols Jr.
Cast: Ann Harding, Уолтер Абель, Дагласс Дамбрилл, Маргарет Хэмилтон, Frances Sage, Moroni Olsen, William Benedict, Paul Harvey, Frank Jenks, Murray Kinnell
Plot
Late one night, secretary Paula Young (Ann Harding) leaves the office of her boss, Stanley Whittaker (Douglas Dumbrille, locking the door and taking the stairs to avoid being seen by the elevator operator (Frank Jenks). The next morning, the cleaning lady finds Whittaker's dead body, an apparent suicide. Police Lieutenant Poole (Moroni Olsen) finds a letter signed by Whittaker in which the deceased states he embezzled $75,000. Soon, however, he suspects otherwise and, after investigating, arrests widower James "Jim" Trent (Walter Abel), the vice president of Whittaker.