Bridge of Sighs

(1936)

65 minutes

Crime Drama / Mystery / Thriller
 
Directed by Phil Rosen
 
Cast:

Onslow Stevens as Jeffrey 'Jeff' Powell
Dorothy Tree as Marion Courtney, aka Mary Court
Jack La Rue as Packy Lacy
Mary Doran as Evelyn 'Duchess' Thane
Walter Byron as Arny Norman
Oscar Apfel as Judge 'Teddy' Blaisdell
Maidel Turner as Mrs. Blaisdell
John Kelly as Tommy, the Taxi Driver-Thug
Paul Fix as Harrison Courtney Jr. aka Harry West
Robert Homans as Homicide Captain P.G. Otheron
Selmer Jackson as Defense Attorney Alan Adams
Bryant Washburn as Neselli
Kathryn Sheldon as Mabel the Maid

" The Bridge of Sighs " is not the Venetian one but the connecting bridge between the Law courts and The Tombs (the House of Detention) in Manhattan. Assistant District Attorney Jeffery Powell (Onslow Stevens) has helped put an innocent man in prison for murder. However, he doesn't know that Marion Courtney (Dorothy Tree), the woman he is in love with, is the sister of that innocent man. Willing to do anything for her brother, Marion commits a crime to put herself in prison, in order to gain proof from inmate Evelyn 'Duchess' Thane that her brother is innocent of the murder. Complications occur when Jeffery believes that Marion is in love with the man whose cause she is championing.