''Before the Jury'' (Italian title:''Corte d'Assise'') is a 1931 Italian

crime film Crime films, in the broadest sense, is a film genre inspired by and analogous to the crime fiction literary genre. Films of this genre generally involve various aspects of crime and its detection. Stylistically, the genre may overlap and combine ...

directed by

Guido Brignone Guido Brignone (6 December 1886 – 6 March 1959) was an Italian film director and actor. He was the father of actress Lilla Brignone and younger brother of actress Mercedes Brignone. Brignone was born in Milan, Italy. He was the first Italian ...

and starring

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Lia Franca Lia Franca (1912–1988) was an Italian film actress. She was sometimes credited as Lya Franca and Libia Franca. Life and career Born Livia Caterina Petra Penso in Trieste, Franca started her career winning a beauty contest, "Miss Trieste", in ...

and

Carlo Ninchi Carlo Ninchi (31 May 1896 – 27 April 1974) was an Italian film actor. He appeared in more than 120 films between 1931 and 1963. He was born in Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, and died on 27 April 1974 in Milan, Lombardy, Italy. Selected filmogra ...

. It was made at the

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. The film is a precursor to the later genre of

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films.Moliterno p.150

Cast

as Leda Astorri *

as Dora Bardi *

as Marcello Barra, il guardacaccia *

Renzo Ricci Renzo Ricci (27 September 1899 – 20 October 1978) was an Italian stage and film actor. He was also a noted theatre director. Ricci played the title role in Roberto Rossellini's 1961 film ''Garibaldi''.Bondanella, Peter. ''The Films of Roberto R ...

as Aroldo Cramoli *

Elio Steiner Elio Steiner (1904–1965) was an Italian stage and film actor. Steiner appeared in forty films during his career, including ''The Song of Love'' (1930), the first Italian sound film.Mancini p.207 Selected filmography * ''The Golden Vein'' (1928 ...

as Giulio Alberti *

Elvira Marchionni Elvira is a female given name. First recorded in medieval Spain, it is likely of Germanic (Gothic) origin. Elvira may refer to: People Nobility * Elvira Menéndez (died 921), daughter of Hermenegildo Gutiérrez and wife of Ordoño II of Le� ...

as La cognata del guardiacaccia *

Giovanni Cimara Giovanni Cimara (1889–1970) was an Italian film actor, mainly of the silent era.Goble p.110 Biography Born into a noble Roman family and brother of the much more famous Luigi Cimara, he had an unfortunate career as an actor at a young age but ...

as Alberto Astorri * Camillo De Rossi as Adolfo Calandri *

Vasco Creti Vasco Creti (7 December 1874 – 16 October 1945) was an Italian film actor. He appeared in more than 110 films between 1915 and 1944. He was married to actress Valeria Creti. Selected filmography * '' Maschiaccio'' (1917) * '' Il siluram ...

as Giovanni, il cameriere di casa Astorri *

Franco Coop Franco Coop (27 September 1891 – 27 March 1962), was an Italian film actor. He appeared in 65 films between 1931 and 1960. He was born in Naples, Italy and died in Rome, Italy. Selected filmography * '' Before the Jury'' (1931) * '' Moth ...

as Il portiere di casa Calandri * Giorgio Bianchi as Lo sconosciuoto *

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as Il presidente del tribunale *

Raimondo Van Riel Raimondo Van Riel (22 January 1881, in Rome – 9 May 1962, in Mentana) was an Italian actor. Raimondo Van Riel was born on January 22, 1881, in Rome, Lazio, Italy. He is known for his work on Quo Vadis? (1924), The Magnificent Rogue (1935) and ...

as Il procuratore generale *

Oreste Fares Oreste Fares (1885–1950) was an Italian stage and film actor.Landy p.155 Selected filmography * '' Before the Jury'' (1931) * ''Venus'' (1932) * '' Villafranca'' (1934) * '' Red Passport'' (1935) * '' Cavalry'' (1936) * '' To Live'' (1937) * '' ...

as L'avvocato difensore * Nino Altieri *

Augusto Bandini Augusto Bandini (born 1889) was an Italian film actor.Dalle Vacche p.268 He appeared in more than forty productions, the majority of them during the silent era. Selected filmography * '' Emperor Maciste'' (1924) * ''Maciste's American Nephew'' ...

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* Amerigo Bombrazzi *

Mercedes Brignone Mercedes Brignone (18 May 1885 – 24 June 1967) was a Spanish-born Italian stage, film and television actress. She was the daughter of the actor Giuseppe Brignone. She often played divas, and appeared in numerous silent films for Milano Films d ...

Rosetta Calavetta Rosetta Calavetta (27 August 1914 – 3 February 1993) was an Italian actress and voice actress. Biography Born in Palermo, Calavetta made her breakthrough role as a teenager in the 1930 film ''Before the Jury'' in which she had a small role. ...

* Bruno Castellani * Alberto Castelli * Francesco Ciancamerla *

Umberto Cocchi Umberto is a masculine Italian given name. It is the Italian form of Humbert. People with the name include: * King Umberto I of Italy (1844–1900) * King Umberto II of Italy (1904–1983) * Prince Umberto, Count of Salemi (1889–1918) * Umberto ...

* Enrico De Martino * Jolanda Di Lorenzo * Clara Di Martignano * Giuseppe Farnesi * Tullio Galvani *

Giuseppe Gambardella Giuseppe is the Italian form of the given name Joseph, from Latin Iōsēphus from Ancient Greek Ἰωσήφ (Iōsḗph), from Hebrew יוסף. It is the most common name in Italy and is unique (97%) to it. The feminine form of the name is Giusep ...

* Walter Grant * Umberto Maestri * Enrico Marignetti * Angelo Marsili *

Alfredo Martinelli Alfredo Martinelli (7 March 1899 – 11 November 1968) was an Italian film actor. He appeared in 103 films between 1916 and 1967. He was born and died in Siena, Tuscany. Selected filmography * ''I Topi Grigi'' (1918) * ''Tortured Soul'' (1 ...

Roberto Pasetti The name Robert is an ancient Germanic given name, from Proto-Germanic "fame" and "bright" (''Hrōþiberhtaz''). Compare Old Dutch ''Robrecht'' and Old High German ''Hrodebert'' (a compound of '' Hruod'' ( non, Hróðr) "fame, glory, hono ...

Giuseppe Pierozzi Giuseppe Pierozzi (8 March 1883 – 22 April 1956) was an Italian stage and film actor.Goble p.349 Selected filmography * ''Maddalena Ferat'' (1920) * '' Through the Shadows'' (1923) * ''Samson'' (1923) * '' The Faces of Love'' (1924) * '' The F ...

* Rinaldo Rinaldi * Flora Rossini * Gino Sabbatini *

Umberto Sacripante Umberto Sacripante (2 October 1904 – 14 January 1975) was an Italian film and stage actor. Life and career Born Umberto Sacripanti in Rome, Sacripante debuted on stage in 1921, and in 1926 he became first actor in the theatrical company Teat ...

Franz Sala Franz Sala (1886–1952) was an Italian film actor who appeared in over seventy films, mostly during the silent era. As his acting career wound down, he began to work as a makeup artist often credited as Francesco Sala. In some of his earliest f ...

* Salvatore Schiavo * Lorenzo Soderini * Elena Zoar

References

Bibliography

* Moliterno, Gino. ''A to Z of Italian Cinema''. Scarecrow Press, 2009.

External links

* 1931 films Italian crime films 1931 crime films 1930s Italian-language films Films directed by Guido Brignone Cines Studios films Italian black-and-white films 1930s Italian films {{1930s-Italy-film-stub