The Seventh Juror

The Seventh Juror

★ 6.8IMDb Score
Released:1962-04-18
Duration:105 min
Country:France
Director:Georges Lautner
Actors:Bernard Blier, Maurice Biraud, Francis Blanche, Danièle Delorme, Jacques Riberolles
Production:Orex Films

Overview:

In a moment of madness a middle-aged, married and respectable pharmacist kills a young woman who is sun-bathing by a lake. Unable to take in what he has done, he flees from the scene of the crime and behaves as if nothing has happened. Eventually her boyfriend is charged with the crime and, in a strange twist of fate, the killer finds himself serving on the jury.

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