THE VERDICT ( 1946) B/W 86m. dir: Don Siegel

w/Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre, George Coulouris, Joan Loring, Rosalind Ivan, Paul Cavanagh, Arthur Shields, Morton Lowry, Holmes Herbert, Art Foster, Clyde Cook, Janet Murdoch

This film is one of FilmFrog's "guilty pleasures"; it's such a cool mystery and Greenstreet and Lorre are terrific together.

From Variety's contemporary review of the film: "Stock mystery tale with period background, The Verdict aims at generating suspense and thrills, succeeding modestly. Sydney Greenstreet creates character of a Scotland Yard superintendent who is fired when he convicts and hangs a man on circumstantial evidence. To show up the Yard and the man who replaced him, Greenstreet commits the perfect crime. Only the conviction of an innocent man for the murder makes Greenstreet reveal how the killing was done and the reason for it.

"Script by Peter Milne, from a novel by Israel Zangwill, is peopled with the usual number of suspects in order to divert suspicion from the real killer, and Don Siegel's direction does well with his material. Peter Lorre, macabre artist friend of Greenstreet's is the prime suspect and turns in a good job to match latter's performance."