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Wives Under Suspicion (1938) - (Movie Clip) Counting Scalps

Director James Whale opening with an absorbing, if gaudy, depiction of an execution, followed by prosecutor Jim (Warren William) and secretary "Sharpie" (Cecil Cunningham) in a fairly casual discussion of capital punishment, from Wives Under Suspicion, 1932.

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