Guilty Hands

Guilty Hands is a 1931 American PreCode crime film starring Lionel Barrymore, Kay Francis and Madge Evans and directed by W. S. Van Dyke, with uncredited assistance from Barrymore. The story concerns an attorney who murders a man who wants to marry his daughter.

At a dinner party that night, Rich announces the wedding and says it will take place in the morning. Grants congratulatory remarks include a veiled threat about all the hours of your life. Richs longtime girlfriend, Marjorie West Kay Francis, is dismayed, but after the party he assures her that, as usual, he will return to her once he exhausts his obsession with Barbara. He is only marrying Barbara because she would not go to bed with him otherwise.Rich orders two servants to watch Grants bungalow on the estate, but Grant uses a cutout mounted on a record player to cast a moving shadow on the curtain as if he is pacing restlessly, and slips back to the main house. Meanwhile, Rich goes to Barbaras room. He loses control and grabs her roughly she recoils in disgust and he leaves, returning to his den. ........

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