The Balance - The wonderful Old Bailey Scene from the great Strand Theatre Drama.
Series
- Series Name
- Eve And Everybody’s Film Review
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 4 / 5
- Summary
- NoS Summary - extracts from "The Balance" at the Strand Theatre.
Pathe Intertitles - "The tense scene when the Prisoner, accused on circumstantial evidence, is tried for murder - the only link missing being the revolver which fired the fatal shots --"
"And inexorably the Judge sums up - and the jury retire --"
"Two hours later --"
""- guilty, my-Lord!""
""I swear before God I am not guilty of this crime --!""
""--- Mercy on your soul.""
"-and then the climax - the confession - and suicide of the real criminal with the missing revolver." - Researcher Comments
- A handwritten shot list is present in the Pathé boxfile.
- Keywords
- Performing arts
- Locations
- London; England
- Written sources
- Kinematograph Weekly 30 November 1922, p52.
Pathe Eve 41-79 Boxfile Issue sheet
National Film Archive Catalogue
- Credits:
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- British Pathe Ltd.
- Length of story (in feet)
- 190
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How to cite this record
'The Balance - The wonderful Old Bailey Scene from the great Strand Theatre Drama.', Eve And Everybody’s Film Review Issue No. 77, 23 Nov 1922. https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/newsonscreen/search/index.php/story/330862 (Accessed 31 Jan 2025)