A senator dies for love, but ten witnesses can't agree why. Who's lying?
A Senator, accused of bribery on circumstantial evidence and sent to prison, decides to commit suicide so that his daughter will feel free to marry the son of a judge. A story told through the eyes of ten people, all familiar with the victim and all with varying versions.
Direction
Seitz orchestrates ten perspectives like a maestro
Acting
Virginia Valli's restrained grief hits harder than histrionics
Director
George B. Seitz
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This lost film was rediscovered in 2021 in a New Zealand vault, one of dozens saved by projectionist collector Jack Murtagh who just... never threw anything away.
The multiple-perspective structure predates Rashomon by twenty years, proving Kurosawa didn't invent unreliable narration—he just had better marketing.
US
