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The Missing Juror

  • 1944
  • Approved
  • 1h 6m
IMDb RATING
6.2/10
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Walter Baldwin, Jim Bannon, Al Bridge, and Janis Carter in The Missing Juror (1944)
Film NoirCrimeMystery

In a major murder case, jurors are threatened and attacked. One of them disappears, and the detective Joe Keats looking for the guilty.In a major murder case, jurors are threatened and attacked. One of them disappears, and the detective Joe Keats looking for the guilty.In a major murder case, jurors are threatened and attacked. One of them disappears, and the detective Joe Keats looking for the guilty.

  • Director
    • Budd Boetticher
  • Writers
    • Charles O'Neal
    • Leon Abrams
    • Richard Hill Wilkinson
  • Stars
    • Jim Bannon
    • Janis Carter
    • George Macready
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • IMDb RATING
    6.2/10
    352
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Budd Boetticher
    • Writers
      • Charles O'Neal
      • Leon Abrams
      • Richard Hill Wilkinson
    • Stars
      • Jim Bannon
      • Janis Carter
      • George Macready
    • 16User reviews
    • 13Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • See production info at IMDbPro
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    Jim Bannon
    Jim Bannon
    • Joe Keats
    Janis Carter
    Janis Carter
    • Alice Hill
    George Macready
    George Macready
    • Harry Wharton
    Jean Stevens
    • Tex Tuttle
    Joseph Crehan
    Joseph Crehan
    • Willard Apple
    George Anderson
    • Wharton Attorney
    • (uncredited)
    Walter Baldwin
    Walter Baldwin
    • Town Sheriff
    • (uncredited)
    Trevor Bardette
    Trevor Bardette
    • Tom Pierson
    • (uncredited)
    Al Bridge
    Al Bridge
    • Deputy Sheriff Ben
    • (uncredited)
    Nancy Brinckman
    Nancy Brinckman
    • Nurse
    • (uncredited)
    Cliff Clark
    • Police Inspector Davis
    • (uncredited)
    Edmund Cobb
    Edmund Cobb
    • Police Detective Cahan
    • (uncredited)
    Danny Desmond
    • Newsboy
    • (uncredited)
    Sam Flint
    Sam Flint
    • Judge
    • (uncredited)
    Jack Gardner
    • Reporter at Trial
    • (uncredited)
    Jesse Graves
    Jesse Graves
    • Train Porter
    • (uncredited)
    William Hall
    William Hall
    • Officer Garrett
    • (uncredited)
    Chuck Hamilton
    Chuck Hamilton
    • Bailiff
    • (uncredited)
    • Director
      • Budd Boetticher
    • Writers
      • Charles O'Neal
      • Leon Abrams
      • Richard Hill Wilkinson
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    User reviews16

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    6blanche-2

    major casting problem

    "The Missing Juror" is worth seeing since it's an early directorial film of Budd Boetticher, so it has some of his great camerawork. The film stars noir actress Janis Carter, Jim Bannon, George Macready, and Mike Mazurki.

    A man is tried and found guilty of murder, and then the jurors start dying. A reporter (Bannon) becomes interested in the case - and in one of the jurors (Carter).

    The problem is, if you're old enough and enough of a film fan, you'll have this plot figured out fairly quickly.

    My favorite part of this film, I have to admit, were the dictation belts which, thirty-plus years after this movie, I was using.
    dougdoepke

    How Do You Spell "Rewrite"

    The story may have more holes than Grandma's sieve, but it's still worth catching up with. For one, it's got cult actress Janis Carter who always shows more eyeball than ought to be legally allowed, along with the high-class George Macready just then perfecting his mad cackle-- and whoever in production thought his cultured voice was not a dead give-a-way. It's also one of director Buddy Boetticher's first outings, and already he's a camera master—catch those graceful dolly moves across the cut-a-way rooms. Then there's literary muscleman and masseuse Mike Mazurki throttling Macready's face blue while on a flight of poetic abandon. I just wish some of that imagination had carried over to repairing the story holes, like how crank-confessor Trevor Bardette knows so many details of the killings. Speaking of Bardette, his highly enthused performance suggests A-grade pay for a B-grade movie, making his mad lather a movie high point. Clearly, the 50-dollar budget didn't go into lighting since some scenes resemble a bat's cave and require the eyes of one to make out what's happening. Nonetheless, the film has almost as many promising noirish elements as the classic Stranger on the Third Floor (1940)—as another reviewer aptly compares. Too bad someone didn't send the script down to Rewrite for some hole-plugging plaster.
    1tkasle

    I watched this based on "Povertyrowpictures'" review....

    ....which is so opposite reality as to be intentionally misleading.

    "Juror" is NOT noir.

    It IS a poorly-written B "mystery", with little of that, but plenty of under- and over-acting.

    You can't even call it a pot-boiler because it never catches fire.

    The only reason it's "rarely seen" on TV these days is that only TCM would show it. (But you'll never see Osborne or Mankiewicz introducing it.)

    With the exception of classics like "The Wizard of Oz", "Gone With the Wind" and "It's a Wonderful Life", no network today will broadcast movies over 30 years old in order to attract that all-important 18-35 demographic.

    This clunker has nothing in common with "Stranger On The Third Floor" and it's an insult to say it's a twist on "And Then There Were None."

    "Juror" was just a paycheck for Budd Boetticher, who moved on to direct and team with Randolph Scott for some truly great 1950s westerns.

    Watch them, not this.
    6utgard14

    "I love a morgue."

    Breezy B detective movie from Columbia, who made some of the best B movies of the 1940s. Jim Bannon stars as a reporter investigating the murders of jurors from a high profile case. The mystery here is not very compelling. The identity of the killer is obvious from the start. So obvious that I have to wonder if it was even expected to fool the audience. Maybe it was supposed to be a Vertigo type of thing. At any rate, the movie is a fun watch despite the weak mystery. The cast is likable and director Budd Boetticher keeps things moving along quickly. The following year Bannon would rejoin co-star George Macready in the first of Bannon's short-lived I Love a Mystery series.
    9clanciai

    Dead man's revenge on jurors who sentenced him to death

    There is not one juror going missing here, but they are all gradually being disposed of one by one, until only five remain. We never learn what ever happened to those last five.

    Jim Bannon plays the reporter who starts paying attention to the case, investigating it and digging it up, while the murders just go on. The case is the problem of a murderer convicted of a murder he did not commit, he is sentenced to be hanged, and not until in the last moments before his hanging he is pardoned, as the case is solved. But he is already destroyed, distraught by the hardships in the prison with the terrible psychological torture of daily having to witness other convicts being brought out to be hanged, and he has to be confined to a mental asylum. There he hangs himself and destroys all traces of himself by setting fire to the cell. The case is closed, but that's how it opens.

    You will immediately grasp the plot if you are not stupid, but although it's all self-evident, it keeps developing and getting more complicated, as another is caught for the murders who confesses to all of them in detail. So where does this labyrinth lead?

    It is one of Budd Boetticher's early films, and already here he excels with his special tricks, number one being an excellent camera work, supported by exquisite photo. In spite of all its B-superficiality, the film is worth watching - and enjoying. It is also graced by Janis Carter's enchanting appearance.

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    • Trivia
      'Harry Wharton' was the name of a fictional English schoolboy created by 'Frank Richards' in his 'Greyfriars' stories which starred 'Billy Bunter'.
    • Quotes

      Harry Wharton: Why don't they hang me? What are they waiting for? Hang me! Hang me!

      [He sobs]

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    • Release date
      • November 16, 1944 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Mañana morirás
    • Filming locations
      • Columbia/Sunset Gower Studios - 1438 N. Gower Street, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA(Studio)
    • Production company
      • Columbia Pictures
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 6 minutes
    • Color
      • Black and White
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.37 : 1

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