A young man killed another man without even knowing he did it. Would a jury acquit him of murder?
The young man was Clay Thorne (Tom Brown). He killed Frank Hardmuth (Ralf Harolde) while under the influence of hypnosis. The hypnosis was quite by accident.
Clay Thorne was in love with Nancy Brookfield (Judith Allen), daughter of Jack Brookfield (John Halliday). Clay was at their Kentucky home to see his sweetheart and get Jack's blessing. While he was talking to Jack he became unusually afraid of Jack's cat's-eye ring. It was an irrational fear such that I thought he was a vampire or something inhuman.
Jack attempted to convince Clay that the cat's-eye ring was nothing to be afraid of at all. During Jack's slow methodical speech Clay fell into a state of hypnosis. The hypnosis worked because when Clay came to he was no longer afraid of the ring. Jack told Clay to keep the ring and look at it again the following morning so that he could get more used to it.
The next day Clay was arrested and charged with murder, but he didn't remember anything about the murder.
This was a brief movie that set up a far out situation. The idea that a guy committed murder while hypnotized isn't so strange; him defending himself on that basis is. It was a bit of suspense in the courtroom and some highly irregular courtroom procedure, but that was the only way this movie could work.
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The young man was Clay Thorne (Tom Brown). He killed Frank Hardmuth (Ralf Harolde) while under the influence of hypnosis. The hypnosis was quite by accident.
Clay Thorne was in love with Nancy Brookfield (Judith Allen), daughter of Jack Brookfield (John Halliday). Clay was at their Kentucky home to see his sweetheart and get Jack's blessing. While he was talking to Jack he became unusually afraid of Jack's cat's-eye ring. It was an irrational fear such that I thought he was a vampire or something inhuman.
Jack attempted to convince Clay that the cat's-eye ring was nothing to be afraid of at all. During Jack's slow methodical speech Clay fell into a state of hypnosis. The hypnosis worked because when Clay came to he was no longer afraid of the ring. Jack told Clay to keep the ring and look at it again the following morning so that he could get more used to it.
The next day Clay was arrested and charged with murder, but he didn't remember anything about the murder.
This was a brief movie that set up a far out situation. The idea that a guy committed murder while hypnotized isn't so strange; him defending himself on that basis is. It was a bit of suspense in the courtroom and some highly irregular courtroom procedure, but that was the only way this movie could work.
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