Madame X

Jacqueline is the wife of an ambitious lawyer. Her husband learns that she has been having an affair. He throws her out and forbids her to see their son. Jacqueline drifts from one city to another. Over the years she sinks, and she takes to drink. One day a blackmailer turns up. The man is planning to squeeze money out of her former husband. To protect the family she left behind, Jacqueline shoots him. She is charged with murder and brought to court. She will not give her name, and the file calls her Madame X. A young lawyer is appointed to defend her. The lawyer is her son, though he does not know it. This is the first case of his career. His father sits on the court panel. As the trial goes on the tension builds. The film was adapted from a stage play. Gladys George and Warren William appear in the seventy two minute film, an American production Sam Wood finished in 1937.