The Woman Under Oath

After a forward introduces the question of whether women are temperamentally suited for jury duty, Jim O'Neil, a young shipping clerk, is found holding a revolver over his dead employer, Edward Knox. The celebrated novelist Grace Norton, selected to be on the jury at Jim's trial, becomes the first woman juror in New York.

• Release date
• June 29, 1919
• Runtime
• 75 min
• Genres
• Mystery, Drama
• Director
• John M. Stahl

Cast

Florence Reed Grace Norton Hugh Thompson John Schuyler Gareth Hughes Jim O'Neil David Powell Edward Knox Florida Kingsley Mrs. O'Neill

M

Mildred Cheshire Helen May McAvoy Edith Norton

H

Harold Entwistle The Judge