The Verdict

Loren stars as the mother of Albertini, a young man on trial for the murder of Catala, in this melodrama. Because of Albertini's father's reputation as a gangster, the young man's outlook seems dim. Hoping to free her son, Loren calls on Gabin, an influential French judge in Lyon. She secures her son's acquittal by kidnaping the diabetic wife of Gabin, thereby blackmailing Gabin into being lenient. Eventually, Albertini is freed, though he later admits to his mother that he did indeed murder the girl. Gabin then learns he defied justice for nothing, finding his wife dead after refusing to take her insulin shots. Distraught, Loren crashes her car into a brick wall, ...