Cross My Heart

Synopsis: Screwball courtroom comedy with songs. Showgirl Peggy Harper (Hutton) is engaged to lawyer Oliver Clarke (Tufts), She is a compulsive liar and admits falsely to the murder of her producer-boss Wallace Brent (Freeman) so Oliver will defend her and boost his reputation. She is acquitted and the engagement is broken off. A detective discovers that a disgruntled Shakespearean actor is the murderer. Peggy and Oliver are re-united. The murder, Peter (Chekhov), is an Eastern European Shakespearean who wants to be in Brent’s revival of Hamlet and it is later revealed that he has murdered other actors while playing the role. At the end of the film Oliver is playing in Hamlet with Peter, and Peggy and the police step in to prevent his murder.
Language: English
Country: United States
Medium: Film
Technical information: Black-and-white / Sound
Year of release: 1947
Duration: 85 mins

Director

John Berry

Producer

Harry Tugend

Cinematographer

Charles Lang; Stuart Thompson

Screenplay

Claude Binyon; Harry Tugend

Music

Robert Emmett Dolan

Costume

Edith Head

Art Direction

Franz Bachelin; Hans Dreier

Cast

Notes: Out of distribution (7/2011). UCLA holds master material only; no viewing print (7/2011).
General: This 1946 production/1947 release is a slight remake of TRUE CONFESSION (1937) [IMDb]. Adapted from the play True Confessions by Louis Verneuil and Georges Berr.

British Universities Film & Video Council