The Bridge of Sighs

1936
1h 6m

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Jack La Rue, Onslow Stevens, and Dorothy Tree in The Bridge of Sighs (1936)

Assistant District Attorney Jeffery Powell has just sent an innocent man to prison for the murder of a gambler. Powell is in love with, Marion Courtney, but he's unaware that Marion is the s... Read allAssistant District Attorney Jeffery Powell has just sent an innocent man to prison for the murder of a gambler. Powell is in love with, Marion Courtney, but he's unaware that Marion is the sister of the innocent man he sent to prison. Marion gets herself committed to a women's pr... Read allAssistant District Attorney Jeffery Powell has just sent an innocent man to prison for the murder of a gambler. Powell is in love with, Marion Courtney, but he's unaware that Marion is the sister of the innocent man he sent to prison. Marion gets herself committed to a women's prison to get proof from inmate, Evelyn 'Duchess' Thane, that her brother is innocent. Powel... Read all

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The "bridge of sighs" in the title refers to the bridge that once connected the Jail to the Criminal Court building in New York City which would transport prisoners back and forth. The last stop, the criminal court building is where convicted prisoners would be sentenced to time in upstate prisons. Hence, "sigh" as in not a happy outcome.

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5/10

Decent Poverty Row Mystery

Assistant District Attorney Onslow Stevens is dating Dorothy Tree, when he catches a murder case and convicts Paul Fix, even though there's something mysterious going on. Miss Tree hints she knows something, but refuses to tell. Then she vanishes and winds up in prison, where she hopes to track down the real murderer.

It's a decent little story, with but as often happens with Poverty Row mysteries, there's too much idiot plotting going on: bad police work, people keeping mum with possible exculpatory evidence. Still, the competent direction of Phil Rosen and an able cast that includes Jack La Rue, Mary Doran, Walter Byron, Oscar Apfel, and Selmer Jackson keep things bubbling along through the end.