The Witness Chair
- Original title
- The Witness Chair
- Year
- 1936
- Running time
- 64 min.
- Country
- United States
- Director
- Screenwriter
- Cast
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- Ann Harding
- Walter Abel
- Douglass Dumbrille
- Maxine Jennings
- Moroni Olsen
- Margaret Hamilton
- Frances Sage
- William 'Billy' Benedict
- Charles Arnt
- Lon Poff
- Murray Kinnell
- Paul Harvey
- Frank Jenks
- Hilda Vaughn
- Michael Lally
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- Music
- Cinematography
- Producer
- Genre
- Film noir. Thriller. Mystery | Crime
- Synopsis
- Late one night, secretary Paula Young (Ann Harding) leaves the office of her boss, Stanley Whittaker (Douglas Dumbrille, locking the door and taking the stairs to avoid being seen by the elevator operator (Frank Jenks). The next morning, the cleaning lady finds Whittaker's dead body, an apparent suicide. Police Lieutenant Poole (Moroni Olsen) finds a letter signed by Whittaker in which the deceased states he embezzled $75,000. Soon, however, he suspects otherwise and, after investigating, arrests widower James "Jim" Trent (Walter Abel), the vice president of Whittaker Textile Corporation. The gun that fired the fatal shot belongs to Trent, and the typewritten suicide note, though signed by Whittaker, specifically states that Trent is not involved in the embezzlement.
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