Accused
Cast & Crew
Thornton Freeland
Douglas Fairbanks
Dolores Del Rio
Florence Desmond
Basil Sydney
John Roberts
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
Tony Seymour and his Spanish wife, Gaby, are dancers who are hired to perform in the new Parisian musical show produced by temperamental stage actress Yvette Delange. Tony and Gaby become noted for an Apache dance they perform, which ends with Gaby throwing a knife across stage. Yvette takes an immediate fancy to Tony, much to the chagrin of the jealous Gaby. The night of the final dress rehearsal, Yvette insults Gaby, causing the couple to quit the show. The manager pursues Tony and asks him to go to Yvette's apartment that night and apologize. Tony goes to the actress's apartment, but she is not there. Things are further complicated for Tony when he discovers the jealous Gaby stalking the front of the apartment building, waiting to catch the innocent Tony in an adulterous situation. Back at the theater, however, Yvette's body has been discovered, murdered by the same knife that Gaby used in her dance number. When the police investigate the matter, Gaby is unable to account for her whereabouts at the time of the murder, and numerous members of the theatrical company testify that Yvette and Gaby had quarrelled backstage just hours before the murder. Gaby is put on trial for murder and seems destined to be convicted when Tony reappears with Yvette's ex-convict husband, Henry Coppelle, who testifies that he was with the actress just prior to her death. The ex-husband's testimony proves that the theater's night watchman, Dubee, who found Yvette's body, had committed perjury. Gaby's lawyer, Eugene Roget, recalls Dubee to the stand, where the crime is verbally reenacted. When he is accused of the crime, the night watchman throws the murder weapon at the defense attorney, physically confessing to the crime and clearing the innocent Gaby.
Director
Thornton Freeland
Cast
Douglas Fairbanks
Dolores Del Rio
Florence Desmond
Basil Sydney
John Roberts
Cecil Humphreys
Esme Percy
Edward Rigby
George Moore Marriott
Cyril Raymond
Googie Withers
Roland Culver
Crew
Zoë Akins
Zoë Akins
Victor Arminese
George Barraud
George Barraud
David L. Blumenfeld
William Boyle
Philip Buchal
Edward Carrick
Cecil Dixon
Marcel Hellman
Percival Mackey
Vernon Rudlof
F. C. Scanlan
Film Details
Technical Specs
Quotes
Trivia
Notes
This was the second of three films produced by Douglas Fairbanks Jr.'s Criterion Fiilm Productions. Fairbanks states in his autobiography that he had planned to star in either Bonnie Prince Charlie or The Armstrong, but was unable to acquire adequate financing for those projects, and therefore reluctantly accepted his role in this film. Variety reported that this was the first film in which Fairbanks performed a dance number. According to publicity material, an exact replica of the Criminal Court of the famous French Palais de Justice in Paris was created for this film.
