When young actress Diana Baring is convicted of the murder of a fellow actress, actor-manager Sir John Saumarez, convinced of her innocence, sets himself up as a private detective in order to prove her innocence before the execution is carried out.
An actor-manager sitting on the jury for the murder trial of actress Diana Baring becomes convinced of her innocence after she has been convicted and sentenced to hang: he works to uncover the real murderer before sentence is carried out.
''Helen Simpson’s Under Capricorn made a decades-long journey from novel to film to TV to DVD. Alfred Hitchcock’s version was a revealing stop-off along the way'
''Helen Simpson’s Under Capricorn made a decades-long journey from novel to film to TV to DVD. Alfred Hitchcock’s version was a revealing stop-off along the way'