Night Court

Moffett is a judge in a night court. He is corrupt. A commission is looking into him, headed by an honest judge. Moffett believes a young woman has seen his private bankbook. Her name is Mary and she lives poorly with her husband. He has her charged with something she did not do. Mary goes to jail and her child is taken from her and put into care. Her husband is got out of the city as well, put on a ship bound for South America. He starts looking for a way back. Behind the play the film comes from is a real judicial scandal of the day. The picture belongs to the years before the production code took hold. Walter Huston, Anita Page, Phillips Holmes and Lewis Stone appear in the ninety two minute film, an American production W.S. Van Dyke finished in 1932.