Self-defense

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Movie
Original title Self-defense
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1932
length 68 minutes
Rod
Director Phil Rosen
script Tristram Tupper
production Trem Carr ,
William T. Lackey
for Monogram Pictures
camera Archie Stout
occupation

Self-Defense , also Self-defense and Self Defense , is an American film based on the story The Just Judge by Peter B. Kyne . It was released in the US on December 15, 1932. Directed by Phil Rosen , the script was written by Tristram Tupper . The working title was My Mother .

action

Katy Devoux makes her living in Roaring Pines, British Columbia, running a gaming room . Since she wants to keep the source of her income a secret from her daughter Nona, she lets her grow up in the United States and claims to run a hotel. But her rival Jeff Bowman, who has been expelled from her pub for cheating, wants Nona to return home and face the facts by writing her a letter to California claiming her mother is seriously ill. He hopes to take over Devoux's lucrative eatery if it leaves town out of shame. His previous comrade Alice is not happy about this plan. She leaves and moves to the tidewater 80 miles away, but leaves her rifle and a bracelet in Roaring Pines. Bowman raids Devoux's gaming room and kills a man while trying to escape. The gun and the armband that he leaves behind, however, point to Alice as the perpetrator.

Katy Devoux receives a telegram from her daughter announcing her imminent arrival and panics. First she wants to burn down her gaming room, but friends stand by her: the young Tim Reed is sent to pick Nona from the ship, and within a very short time the gaming room is converted into a hotel.

Tim learns from Alice that Jeff sent the letter and killed the man from the gaming room. He goes to Jeff, threatens him with a gun and forces him to admit his wrong game. Jeff takes up his gun and tries to shoot him down, but Tim gets ahead of him and shoots him. He takes Jeff's marked material. In court, he refuses to testify in his own defense while Nona is in the courtroom, but Katy Devoux explains the real reason for the shooting to the judge in private. He then takes Jeff's cardsharp tools and finally lets Tim use them to play for his acquittal after the jury gets stuck. Tim wins and moves to California with Nona and her mother.

reception

In Variety , the actors' work was praised. The film itself, however, is more of a B than A level. The plot is not quite enough to fill an entire film with it, so that the plot has been rolled out too thinly.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Library of Congress. Copyright Office: Catalog of Copyright Entries. US Government Printing Office, 1933, p. 36 ( limited preview in Google Book search)
  2. ↑ Table of contents on clarewindsor.weebly.com
  3. ↑ Self Defense (1933) in: Variety , February 21, 1933, quoted on web.stanford.edu