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00:00 [Music]
00:25 Thank you.
00:27 [Music]
00:33 Molly!
00:35 What is it, Dave?
00:37 Oh, the mail. For you, for me, for who?
00:39 For you.
00:40 For who?
00:41 It's official.
00:42 Official? From who?
00:44 It's a clerk of the court have a real official business.
00:48 Penalty to void postage, $25.
00:52 What did I do?
00:55 Should have something official?
00:57 Well, open it, Molly.
01:02 Maybe it's something.
01:04 Of course it's something, open it.
01:06 What's the conference?
01:07 Nothing.
01:08 It's something.
01:09 What's something?
01:11 What happened, bad news?
01:12 I don't know, he's here.
01:14 Clerk of the court, let's open it.
01:17 You open it, Jack.
01:25 Don't spare me, Jack.
01:26 I won't.
01:27 It's a notice to appear before the clerk of the court to be examined for jury duty.
01:31 That's the official, and I thought...
01:33 Jury duty is a non-homology.
01:35 I know, but I have to be examined.
01:37 Well, it's nothing to worry about.
01:39 It's nothing.
01:40 But an examination, can you imagine?
01:44 Where are you going, Molly?
01:46 Stairs to look for a book.
01:48 Why do you need a book?
01:49 Well, if I'm going to have an examination, I have to study.
01:52 For this kind of an examination, you don't have to study, Molly.
01:55 Nevertheless, I'm going to look in my civics book.
01:57 I want to pass with my colors flying.
02:07 Your name, Goldberg?
02:09 Molly Goldberg.
02:11 G.
02:13 Middle initial?
02:15 I don't have one, I'm sorry.
02:19 Age?
02:20 Necessary.
02:22 For the record, lady, yes.
02:24 Well, you see, in my voting ballot, I'm 21 plus.
02:27 Is that all right?
02:29 That'll do.
02:30 All right.
02:31 Now, do you swear the statements given here before me this day are, to the best of your knowledge, true?
02:36 There's a fine of $500 and a year in jail or both.
02:40 I swear.
02:41 All right, just sign your full name.
02:43 Thank you.
02:50 All right, Mrs. Goldberg, that's all.
02:52 Thank you.
02:55 Just one question, please.
02:57 Yes?
02:58 Did I pass?
03:01 Thank you.
03:05 Sunny side up for me, Rosie.
03:07 All right, do you want eggs, Pa?
03:09 Scramble me, please.
03:10 Well, today's Mama's big day.
03:15 Molly, a member of a jury can't be late.
03:19 Coming.
03:20 Coffee, Pa?
03:21 Thanks, Sally.
03:23 Morning.
03:24 Morning, Ma.
03:25 Morning, morning.
03:26 You look wonderful, Molly.
03:27 Oh, take me, I.
03:28 I'm going to be a member of the jury.
03:30 Morning, Rosalie dear.
03:31 Good morning, Ma.
03:32 If it's not irrelevant and if it's not immaterial, and if you have the time, sit down and have some breakfast.
03:37 What's the hilariousness, what?
03:39 It's just fooling, Ma.
03:41 Some things in life are not for fooling.
03:43 If I was selected and I was picked to be on a jury, I consider it a very important duty.
03:48 One little piece of advice can I advise you, Molly?
03:50 Why not?
03:51 There's a judge and a lawyer for the defense and a lawyer for the state.
03:55 They do all the talking and you do the listening.
03:57 Don't I know that?
03:58 Didn't I see the trial of the Kane mutiny in the movies?
04:00 That's all I wanted to say.
04:02 Just pay attention to the evidence.
04:04 Of course, Exhibition A and Exhibition B.
04:06 It shouldn't only be a murder case.
04:08 I'm so allergic to assassination.
04:10 How long will it take, Ma?
04:11 Will you be home for supper?
04:13 That all depends.
04:14 On what?
04:15 If you're not locked in.
04:17 Locked in?
04:18 The jury can be locked up overnight.
04:20 You mean...
04:21 Of course, if they can't reach a verdict.
04:23 Ma, it sounds so exciting.
04:25 I wish I could go with you.
04:27 After you'll be 21, you'll be eligible.
04:29 Well, I'm flying.
04:30 Goodbye, Rosalie.
04:31 Ma, you didn't have any breakfast.
04:32 I swallowed a cup.
04:33 Bye, Ma.
04:34 Bye.
04:35 Molly, use your head and leave your heart home.
04:37 Remember, Ma, quality of mercy is not strained.
04:40 It droppeth like the gentle rain from heaven upon the place beneath.
04:44 Don't you recognize the quotation, Molly?
04:46 It was written by an old friend of yours.
04:48 Who's an old friend of mine?
04:50 William Shakespeare.
04:51 Say, please.
04:53 You!
04:54 Daisy!
04:57 Daisy?
04:59 Yes?
05:00 Then I'm all ready to go to perform my duty.
05:04 Well, maybe you can still get out of it.
05:06 What do you mean?
05:07 Well, I had an uncle once who served on the jury,
05:10 and he was so impressed with the law
05:12 that he gave up his old business to become a lawyer.
05:15 The only case he ever tried was his own.
05:18 His wife sued him for non-support.
05:21 Well, I was called to do my duty, and I stand ready and able.
05:26 Ma, you're going to be late.
05:28 All right.
05:29 Daisy, dear, I'm going to leave the key under my front door mat
05:32 if anybody should deliver me.
05:34 Oh, certainly.
05:35 Don't worry about it.
05:36 Have you got your smelling salts?
05:38 Smelling salts?
05:39 For what?
05:40 In case you need them.
05:41 The details might get gruesome.
05:44 Thank you.
05:46 Rosalie, get me my smelling salts,
05:49 because it's possible it'll be gruesome.
05:58 Mr. Newcomb has testified that he noticed this man,
06:03 the defendant, standing a foot or two away from him.
06:07 Suddenly, he became aware that his wallet was leaving him.
06:10 He grabbed the defendant and accused him of taking his wallet.
06:15 The defendant has denied it.
06:18 But the prosecution will demonstrate beyond all shadow of a doubt
06:22 that this denial is false.
06:25 Madam Foreman, gentlemen, that man is guilty.
06:32 [crowd murmuring]
06:36 Thank you.
06:38 You're welcome.
06:40 Counsel for the defense, are you ready for summation?
06:45 Ready, Your Honor.
06:50 Your Honor, please.
06:55 Madam Foreman.
06:56 How do you do?
06:57 Gentlemen of the jury, you have listened carefully to the evidence.
07:01 I know you are all intelligent enough to interpret that evidence
07:06 and readily form in your own mind a reasonable doubt in this case.
07:11 As the prosecutor told you when he chose you and when I chose you,
07:16 there is no direct proof that this man, Frank Clark, the defendant,
07:23 put his hand into that complainant's pocket.
07:27 Nothing to that effect whatsoever.
07:30 This case is based on what the prosecutor calls circumstantial evidence.
07:37 I say it is based on innuendo, inference, suspicion,
07:42 each thing based on something else.
07:45 The only man who could have testified to any possession in any way possible
07:50 is Officer Leonard, who has truthfully taken the stand
07:54 and testified that he was walking with the defendant,
07:58 said, "Excuse me," and expectorated.
08:03 He also testified that he had the defendant under constant observation
08:09 and that at no time did he see the wallet in the possession of the defendant.
08:15 At no time, mind you.
08:18 And at no time did he see the defendant throw that wallet into the ash can.
08:25 What ash can?
08:26 The wallet was found in the ash can, remember?
08:30 Now, what I'm trying to get at is this.
08:36 There are some little things missing here.
08:41 In other words, there is suspicion.
08:48 Suspicion.
08:49 Suspicion.
08:50 Suspicion.
08:51 But there is nothing else in this case,
08:56 no single shred of evidence to connect my client, Frank Clark,
09:00 with the disappearance or the reappearance of that wallet.
09:08 Well, have you finished?
09:11 I think I have, Your Honor.
09:15 Madam Foreman.
09:17 Now, members of the jury,
09:19 in a criminal case under our jurisdiction,
09:21 the defendant is presumed to be innocent unless
09:24 and until the people can establish his guilt according to the standards fixed by the law.
09:31 Now, what it really means is this.
09:34 It establishes by statute an evidentiary rule of proof.
09:39 It means there is no burden on any defendant to prove his innocence.
09:44 In a criminal case, the burden always rests on the people to prove the guilt of a defendant
09:50 and to prove it beyond a reasonable doubt.
09:53 And let me say that in this court, all verdicts are unanimous.
09:57 That is, all final verdicts.
10:00 There's no such thing as a 10 to 2, 9 to 3, or 11 to 1 verdict.
10:05 So if you find that this defendant did take that wallet out of the pocket of the complaining witness,
10:10 you are to convict him of the crime of grand larceny in the second degree.
10:14 If you have a reasonable doubt that he did, you are to acquit him.
10:20 Now, you may retire.
10:24 7, 8, 9, 10, 11.
10:30 That's 11 for guilty and 1 for not guilty, which means that we are still not unanimous.
10:35 We're all unanimous, but you, you're a nasty one.
10:38 I don't forgive you. Come on, give us the record.
10:41 No, gentlemen, no. I will stick to the last ditch because my doubt is reasonable.
10:47 The man's a pickpocket. All the evidence proves it.
10:50 Circumstantial. All circumstantial. From A to B, circumstantial.
10:55 Nobody saw the wallet leave the pocket.
10:57 What's the difference? A seasoned pickpocket's clever.
11:01 I don't know. I looked at the gentleman's hands.
11:04 They didn't look like a pickpocket's hands to me.
11:06 Who knows what a pickpocket's hands look like? I don't.
11:09 Oh, you don't?
11:12 Well, my fellow juror, if you don't, then why do you want to convict?
11:16 You can't convict on ignorance.
11:18 You heard the counsel for the defense of the counsel say that this whole case was nothing but suspicion, suspicion, and suspicion.
11:24 Yes.
11:25 But what does that mean?
11:26 That means that there is a question mark as to the innocence or the guilt of Mr. Clark.
11:30 And as long as there is a question mark in my mind, my doubt will remain reasonable.
11:35 Who said anything about a question mark?
11:38 So what does a reasonable doubt mean, my dear fine gentleman?
11:42 It means a question mark.
11:44 And, gentlemen, this question mark should be more than just a punctuation mark.
11:48 Don't you understand that you are deciding the innocence or vice versa of a man, of a gentleman, of a human being?
11:55 Listen, Madam Foreman, you've been gabbing for four hours.
11:58 Now let somebody else get a word in edgewise.
12:00 Gabbing?
12:02 Gabbing?
12:03 No, my dear gentleman, not gabbing.
12:05 Gabbing is not in my vocabulary.
12:08 You heard the dear district attorney say that this case was circumstantial and that the people did not make a prima facie case.
12:14 Well, if that is the case, then why didn't anybody see the wallet leave the pig pocket?
12:19 And why didn't they see him take it out of the pocket?
12:21 And why didn't they see the wallet go in the ash can with the $85?
12:25 Well, I say that this is purely circumstantial.
12:28 Now, now, you look here, Madam Foreman, there's nobody says that you can't convict on circumstantial evidence.
12:34 Even I heard the judge say you can convict that way if there's no reasonable doubt.
12:39 My reasonable doubt is that the man is innocent.
12:41 There's never a conviction on 100% proof.
12:44 [arguing]
12:50 Gentlemen, gentlemen, citizens, fellow jurors, lend me your ears.
12:56 We didn't come here to bury the defendant with circumstantial evidence.
13:01 We came here to hand out justice.
13:04 And like my son's family said, the quality of mercy is not strange.
13:10 It falls like rain from the heavens underneath and beneath us all day.
13:16 It is mightier than the mighty.
13:18 It's like a king on a throne.
13:20 Listen, lady, I got this.
13:22 [music]
13:34 I'll say you, do you find the defendant guilty or not guilty?
13:39 Not.
13:41 Not what?
13:42 Not guilty.
13:44 You say through your poor lady, you find the defendant not guilty.
13:48 And so say you all.
13:50 The defendant is discharged.
13:53 Court is dismissed.
13:54 [music]
13:59 So Jake, there's one more free man walking around the world today.
14:06 Brotherly darling, here.
14:07 Wind my watch, yes, it stops.
14:09 Yes, please.
14:10 And there was never a suspicion in your mind that he was guilty?
14:13 Not at all.
14:14 And you know, Jake, I was watching his eyes all through the trial.
14:18 You know what kind of eyes he had?
14:19 What?
14:20 Like your eyes.
14:21 My eyes?
14:23 Blue.
14:26 But what I don't understand is how did the man's wallet get into the ash can?
14:31 I don't know either.
14:32 But wasn't it part of your duty to have a theory?
14:35 Well, the judge didn't say so.
14:37 He said that I shouldn't be influenced and I should only use my own judgment.
14:41 Here, ma.
14:42 Thank you.
14:44 If I had enough years left, you know what I would do?
14:47 What?
14:49 You'll laugh if I say it.
14:51 You would study law?
14:52 I would.
14:53 [laughs]
14:54 You see, you're laughing and I wouldn't talk.
14:56 Oh, no, no, no, no, Marlee.
14:58 You think it wasn't a big responsibility?
15:00 What all the graduated lawyers couldn't do, I did without a diploma.
15:05 Eleven of my fellow jurors all said guilty,
15:09 and I alone stood for innocence and brought down the acquittal.
15:13 You mean they were all for conviction?
15:15 All. All.
15:17 My logic sprinkled with a little mercy and a little doubt in my heart.
15:23 And in your head?
15:24 I combined myself, heart and head.
15:26 What's one without the other?
15:28 Nothing.
15:29 Rola, darling, for me it's too late, but you still can be a Lady Frankfurter.
15:35 No thanks, ma.
15:36 I have no interest in law.
15:38 Why not?
15:39 Because I just haven't.
15:41 I thought you want Rosie to be just a happy housewife.
15:44 The garbage truck, Rosalie, darling.
15:46 Here, take out the garbage can.
15:48 Take this with you.
15:49 Yes, darling?
15:50 Here, here.
15:51 That's good.
15:52 Thank you.
15:53 [doorbell rings]
15:54 The front door bell.
15:56 Front door.
15:57 I'll go, says Emily.
15:58 Boy, I hope it's Stubby Girl.
16:00 My mental facilities are so tired.
16:03 One minute.
16:06 Hello.
16:07 Mr. Clark.
16:09 I just had to come up and say thank you again.
16:12 Come in, come in.
16:14 Well, I saw my duty and I did.
16:17 Jake, I want you to meet my husband.
16:20 Jake, meet the convict.
16:22 Almost.
16:23 Frank Clark is the name.
16:25 Oh, how do you do?
16:26 Hang, Mr. Clark.
16:27 Family, I want you to meet my son, Sammy.
16:30 This is Mr. Clark.
16:31 How do you do, Mr. Clark?
16:32 Sammy.
16:33 Won't you come and sit down, please?
16:35 Rosalie, come here, sir.
16:37 It must have been quite a disturbing experience.
16:40 It wasn't pleasant.
16:41 Rosalie, I want you to meet Mr. Clark.
16:43 This is my daughter, Rosalie.
16:44 Rosalie, how are you?
16:46 You've got a nice family.
16:48 Thank you very much.
16:49 Did you have your supper?
16:50 Oh, sure.
16:51 A little dessert?
16:53 Homemade?
16:55 Well, uh, mind if I wash my hands?
16:59 Not at all.
17:00 Family escort Mr. Clark upstairs?
17:02 Right this way, Mr. Clark.
17:04 Take a clean towel.
17:06 All right, ma.
17:07 Um, how did he know our address?
17:09 Because I gave it to him.
17:11 Oh.
17:12 His eyes are like my eyes.
17:14 I fail to see the resemblance.
17:16 Very charming, no?
17:18 Charming.
17:21 You, Daisy!
17:24 Yes?
17:25 I'd like you to come over and meet somebody.
17:28 Who?
17:29 A celebrity.
17:31 Oh, I'll be right over.
17:35 Come in, Mr. Clark.
17:36 Just call me Frank.
17:38 Come and sit down.
17:39 Right here, please.
17:41 Excuse the table.
17:42 Rosalie?
17:43 Yes, ma?
17:44 Come here, darling.
17:45 You'll slice off a piece of my Vienna cake
17:47 and spill Mr. Clark in a cup, yes?
17:49 OK.
17:50 Oh, uh, you wouldn't have the address of the juror
17:53 that sat on your left, would you?
17:54 Oh, I have all the addresses of all the jurors.
17:57 Good.
17:58 And the one on the left, the fourth on the left.
18:00 On the left, yes.
18:01 Now, tell him just to gift me the minute I have all the names.
18:06 Let me see now.
18:08 Would it be Mr. uh, Mr. Horner?
18:11 No, I have Mr. Horner.
18:13 Uh-huh.
18:14 Would it be Mr. Jason?
18:15 I have him.
18:16 Uh, Fields Jewelry?
18:18 Fields Jewelry.
18:19 That's it.
18:20 Yeah, well, that's located on Elm and Central Avenue.
18:24 Keeping the names of all the jurors?
18:26 I sure am.
18:28 I owe those 12 good people five years of my life.
18:32 I gotta put them on my Christmas list.
18:34 You know what it's like, five years in the pen?
18:37 It ain't living in the Waldorf.
18:40 [doorbell rings]
18:43 Hello.
18:44 Hello, Fermi.
18:45 Come in here, Mrs. Carey.
18:46 Oh.
18:48 Hello.
18:49 Hello, Mrs. Carey.
18:50 Uh, this is Mrs. Carey.
18:51 I want you to meet Mr. Clark, the convict.
18:54 Oh, how do you do?
18:55 Oh, you look much better in person.
18:57 The picture in the paper didn't do you justice at all.
19:00 They never do you justice.
19:02 They didn't even make him look like public enemy number one.
19:05 Thank you.
19:06 Here you are, Mr. Clark.
19:08 Oh, boy.
19:09 Sit down, sit down.
19:10 Enjoy it.
19:11 Will you have a piece of cake?
19:12 Oh, no, I shouldn't.
19:13 I can only stay a minute.
19:15 My Vienna waffles, cake.
19:17 Oh, well, just a little piece.
19:19 Now, what time is it?
19:21 Uh, time is--
19:22 It's 20 minutes after 8.
19:24 Oh, thank you.
19:25 Come, I'll slice you.
19:29 What's your game?
19:30 I make wedding gowns.
19:32 Oh, that's a good racket.
19:34 You must have a lot of people working for you.
19:36 Yes, I have.
19:37 About 30.
19:38 Pretty big payroll, huh?
19:40 Oh, yes.
19:41 Where are you located?
19:43 Main and River Street.
19:46 I may come up and see you sometime.
19:49 Hmm.
19:50 I'm sure I had my wristwatch on.
19:52 Well, where is it?
19:53 I don't know.
19:54 You sure you put it on?
19:56 Rosalie was winding it up for me.
19:58 Did you put it on?
20:00 I don't know.
20:01 Oh, you must have laid it down somewhere.
20:03 Molly, Mr. Clark is enjoying your cake.
20:06 He'd like another piece.
20:08 Jake, uh, when Rosalie was winding my clock,
20:12 uh, did you see if she gave it to me?
20:16 I-- I think she did.
20:18 Why?
20:19 I haven't got it.
20:20 Well, what did you do with it?
20:22 I don't know.
20:24 Molly.
20:25 Molly, are you thinking what I'm thinking?
20:27 What are you thinking?
20:29 A friend, Mr. Clark.
20:31 Maybe I dropped it.
20:32 I'll-- I'll go look again.
20:34 [laughter]
20:36 Remember we were out in the park the other day
20:38 and I broke into a car crash?
20:39 Here you are, Mr. Clark.
20:40 Thank you.
20:41 Some cake, Mrs. Goldby.
20:42 Thank you.
20:43 I'm glad you like it.
20:46 Well, maybe I'd better be leaving.
20:48 I don't want to impose on you.
20:50 Not at all.
20:51 Sit down.
20:52 Eat your cake.
20:53 Another cup of coffee, Rosalie.
20:54 Mr. Clark, tell my father the story.
20:56 He just told Rosie and me.
20:57 Oh, you know Chicago?
20:59 Do you ever work in a slaughterhouse?
21:00 Why don't you tell Mrs. Carey about it?
21:02 Sit down, Mrs. Carey.
21:03 Sit down.
21:04 Sit down.
21:05 Sit down.
21:06 I'll tell you.
21:07 You know Chicago?
21:08 No, no, I don't.
21:09 You never visit a slaughterhouse?
21:10 What's the matter?
21:11 Shh, my watch.
21:13 What do you mean?
21:14 I haven't got it.
21:15 Well, you had it.
21:16 Rosie gave it to you.
21:17 I know, but now I haven't got it.
21:18 Sammy, go next door and call the police.
21:20 You-- you think--
21:21 Call the police.
21:22 Oh, Jake, maybe we'll wait with the police.
21:24 Not at all.
21:25 Once he leaves this house, a guilty man will be at large.
21:28 But Jake--
21:29 No buts.
21:30 Go on, Sammy.
21:31 His blue eyes, she like.
21:33 Do you realize what a crime you committed against society,
21:36 my dear?
21:37 Jake, you think--
21:38 What do you mean, do I think?
21:39 One look at the man, and I form the conclusion.
21:42 Did you ever see a more criminal bone structure?
21:45 Well, look at the forehead.
21:46 Look how close together his eyes are.
21:49 And you said he has my eyes.
21:53 Jake, let me take him in the kitchen, and I'll ask him.
21:57 And if he has a gun?
21:58 Why, he--
21:59 There should be a law against women juries.
22:03 11 against 1, huh?
22:05 You did what his own lawyer couldn't do.
22:07 Mercy you sprinkled on the blue-eyed bandit from Chicago.
22:10 Jake, I still say it's circumstantial.
22:13 If I hear the word circumstantial once again--
22:15 All right, you're not circumstantial,
22:16 but I still have a reasonable doubt.
22:18 Maybe you have a reasonable doubt, not me.
22:21 Jake, let me go in, and I'll ask him.
22:25 Yes, Jake, please.
22:27 Thank you.
22:28 All right, ask him.
22:29 But you-- you wait here.
22:30 I'll ask him.
22:33 Uh, Mrs. Carey, won't you be late for your appointment?
22:37 Uh, Rosalie, show Mrs. Carey the door.
22:40 Yes, Rosalie, come along with me, dear.
22:43 Uh, will you have another cup of coffee?
22:46 Oh, ho.
22:47 Another piece of cake?
22:48 I ain't had this kind of attention
22:50 since I was in the hospital.
22:52 You were in the hospital?
22:54 You see, a person is only a fly.
22:56 You said it.
22:58 Oh, life is short.
23:00 You gotta take what you can get.
23:02 The papers are full of people that took.
23:05 To have what isn't yours is that having?
23:08 Talk the way my mother used to talk.
23:11 I should have had the good sense to listen to the old lady.
23:14 I'd have come up with a different biography.
23:18 Trouble with life is you learn too late.
23:21 What does a child learn when he's knee-high like a grasshopper?
23:25 Thou shalt not-- what, Mr. Clark?
23:28 Frank?
23:32 Take it.
23:34 What is it?
23:35 It's a watch.
23:39 I'll get your hat and coat.
23:41 Jake, don't go to the door yet.
23:43 Don't let the police in.
23:45 Jake, I have my watch.
23:47 Stop protecting him, Molly.
23:48 Don't start with the law.
23:50 Here's your coat and hat, and goodbye, and good luck.
23:55 Well, I--
23:56 Go the kitchen way.
23:58 Yes?
23:59 Mr. Goldberg, does this watch belong to your wife?
24:04 Molly's watch?
24:05 I thought it was.
24:06 It says, "To Molly with love, Jake."
24:08 Molly?
24:09 Yes?
24:10 Molly, your watch.
24:12 Here.
24:13 Watch?
24:14 Here, thank you.
24:15 Thank you very much.
24:16 Thank you, sir.
24:18 It's a good thing we don't have an incinerator.
24:20 He found it in the garbage.
24:21 But then what's this?
24:23 Huh?
24:24 Oh, Jake, another watch.
24:31 If it wasn't for you, I'd be doing time.
24:36 So here's a token to remind you of me.
24:39 Keep picking.
24:40 Love, Frank Lost.
24:44 My apologies, Molly.
24:47 Apologies accepted.
24:49 Court dismissed.
24:51 [MUSIC PLAYING]