The Woman Accused

directed by Paul Sloane
Category: "Suspense"
Year of Release:1933
Date Added:06/20/2026
Date Watched:06/20/2026
Description:Glenda (Nancy Carroll) is about to get married to lawyer Jeffrey (Cary Grant), but minutes before they leave for the wedding (on a booze cruise), Leo, the thug Glenda used to go around with, calls and insists on seeing her. She goes to his room to tell him that she's through with him, but Leo locks her in and demands that she stay with him. When she tells him about Jeffrey, Leo calls a hired killer named Maxie to kill Jeffrey. When Glenda hears this, she grabs a statue and hits Leo, killing him. She takes off on the cruise with Jeffrey. Leo's buddy, Stephen, knows she's the killer and boards the ship at sea. She tries to trap Glenda into admitting her guilt, even arranging a mock trial in front of all the passengers and goading her into a confession. Glenda is arrested when the ship docks, and Stephen thinks he's got her trapped, especially when he has Maxie testify that he could hear Glenda in the background on his phone call with Leo. Jeffrey asks the D.A. to wait, then follows Maxie and beats him with a whip until he confesses what the phone call was really about. He drags Maxie back to the D.A. who hears the story and lets Glenda go. She and Jeffrey marry.
My Rating:5

Reviews for The Woman Accused

Review - Woman Accused, The

The more I thought about the plot, the worse it got. For starters, a mock trial on a ship where nobody was sworn in and the details of the "crime" that was being tried kept changing, would hardly be admissible evidence. Then the lawyer for the accused beating a confession out of a witness is a bit hard to take. There were other bits of nonsense. The movie was written by nine different authors, each taking a part of the script, which explains why the characters personalities kept changing from cool and collected to hysterical to sinister.

Reviewed by Roger on 2026-06-20 16:53:03

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