Keyword Husband Murders Wife

A blacklisted reporter brings his shady ways to a small-town newspaper after being fired from a big city daily.

The setting is a city block during a sweltering summer, where the residents serve as representatives of the not-very-idealized American melting pot. There is idle chitchat, gossip, jealousy, racism, adultery, and suddenly but not unexpectedly, a murder.

A British physician stands trial for murdering his wife after he and his mistress are captured while fleeing to Canada.

An innocent man is found guilty of murder and sentenced to death, but as he's about to be hanged he accidentally kills his executioner. He now faces a new trial, presided over by a young and inexperienced judge.

An impulsive young man kills his wife by accident. When he wants to get rid of her corpse, the image of his wife haunts him.