I, Jane Doe

...skip this awful film. The script is amateurish, the acting is sub-par, while Ruth Hussey does her icy best. Her acting is okay, but she's just not believable as the altruistic wife/attorney.

Vera Ralston shows up from France on a forged passport and kills attorney John Carroll. After she's found guilty, the judge sentences her to death. She collapses and it turns out she's expecting. Carroll's widow, Ruth Hussey, decides to defend her by asking for another trial.

That's not how any of this works, of course, but the sensational aspects of this movie, which should have gotten it banned by the Hays Office, are only the least of its troubles. It's a soap opera, with Miss Hussey calling everyone and his brother to the witness box (with everyone expressing great surprise), and Assistant District Attorney Gene Lockhart objecting to everything, including Miss Ralston's Czech-accented testimony.

John Auer directs a cast that includes John Howard, Leon Belasco, Adele Mara, and John Litel competently, but very little of it makes sense.