The Verdict (1946)
by Don Siegel
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Actor: George Coulouris, Peter Lorre, Sydney GreenstreetDirector: Don Siegel
Brand: Warner
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Black & White, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 128 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2009-05-08
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Warner Bros.
Movie Reviews of The Verdict (1946)
Movie Review: Terrific film noir
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a Warner Archive product. It is a DVD-R with no extras other than a trailer and no chapter stops. You may only go forward and backwards in ten minute increments.
Sydney Greenstreet and Peter Lorre were terrific in the films they made together, this being the best of the ones I've seen so far. Best known for their appearance together in supporting roles in The Maltese Falcon, they also did a series of films together during and immediately after World War II in which they starred, since many of the Warner Brothers A list stars were serving in the military.
The year is 1890. Greenstreet plays the superintendent of police of Scotland Yard, George Edward Grodman, who has just been to the execution of a man he arrested for the crime of murdering an elderly woman. He arrives back at his office to discover that the man is in fact innocent, as the clergyman that the man claimed as an alibi has finally surfaced. Disgraced, he is forced to resign in favor of his subordinate, John Buckley (George Coulouris).
Grodman is a man of means, so the loss of a paycheck doesn't seem to be a problem, but his nightmares about sending an innocent man to the gallows are. He seems to be recovering, and even making plans for writing a book about his past cases, when a neighbor from across the street is murdered. The crime seems to be a perfect one - the murderer apparently killed the man from inside his own locked room and escaped without detection or leaving any clues behind. However, the brash and boorish new superintendent Buckley will not accept that, and continues seeking a suspect, although in the manner of a bull in a china shoppe. In the meantime, there are a multitude of suspects that intersect with a multitude of witnesses, and Grodman along with the help of his friend, illustrator Victor Emmric (Peter Lorre) decide to do some investigating themselves on their own time.
Greenstreet and Lorre are terrific together as always, with a timing and chemistry that makes them great at these kinds of films. You never know if the likable exteriors displayed by each is the truth or a lie in either or both cases, usually up to the end. This one will keep you guessing right up to the final scene, and I highly recommend it.
The video and audio quality on this film are very good. It's too bad it wasn't put on a pressed DVD with commentary so deserving of such an artfully done film. The only negative thing I can say about the product itself is that it says it contains a trailer. When I play what is supposed to be the trailer, what I in fact get are the first few minutes of the film itself. Such is typical of the worst thing about the Warner Archive products so far - the extremely variable quality and outright mistakes made during the manufacturing of the individual discs themselves.
Summary of The Verdict (1946)
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