**SPOILERS** You get lost watching"The Missing Juror" within the first ten minutes in that we already see that the convicted murderer Harry Warton was exonerated of his crime just minutes before he was supposed to be hung for it! This all came out when the star witness against Wharton private dick George Szabo gave a "death Bed" confession, after he was gunned down by an unknown assailant, that he set poor Wharton up by the person who's really responsible for what he was convicted of!
Instead of finding out, and having arrested, just who the actual killer was we instead have the jurors who convicted Wharton of murder being murdered themselves. Wharton who had since gone mad after his release was put into a lunatic asylum where in a short period of time he ended up killing himself by both hanging and arson. Wharton seemed to have flipped out and killed himself because he just couldn't stand the shame of being incarcerated in the asylum as well as the torture he suffered, that drove him insane, of being put on death row for the last six months of his life.
In the movie we have hot shot reporter Joe Keats the man who's investigated reporting got Wharton freed trying to find out just who's responsible for murdering those jurors who had unjustly convicted him. Again no one, the police the courts and even Joe Keats, were not at all interested in finding out who was the man who actually murdered the person whom Wharton was convicted of murdering! Even though with his last dying breath George Szabo identified him which resulted in the court, and prosecuting D.A, overturning Wharton's original death sentence!
As we watch, mostly off camera, most of the jurors in the Wharton murder trial get knocked off it doesn't take a genius to figure out just who's doing the knocking. The killer is so obvious to everyone, with his flimsy and unconvincing disguise, that by the time he finally reveals himself to juror, and reporter Keats' girlfriend, Alice Hill you felt like screaming at him, on the TV screen, "What the hell took you so long"!
Hard to stay awake throughout the entire film because you can see right from the start that it's not at all interested in who the killer who framed Wharton really is. All we get to see is ace crime reported Joe Keats run around in circles making a complete fool of himself and almost getting killed, in an overheated steam room no less, chasing the elusive killer! Who's about as elusive, to everyone but Keats and his girlfriend Alice, as an 800 pound gorilla stuffing himself with stacks of bananas in an outdoor or open air fruit market!
Instead of finding out, and having arrested, just who the actual killer was we instead have the jurors who convicted Wharton of murder being murdered themselves. Wharton who had since gone mad after his release was put into a lunatic asylum where in a short period of time he ended up killing himself by both hanging and arson. Wharton seemed to have flipped out and killed himself because he just couldn't stand the shame of being incarcerated in the asylum as well as the torture he suffered, that drove him insane, of being put on death row for the last six months of his life.
In the movie we have hot shot reporter Joe Keats the man who's investigated reporting got Wharton freed trying to find out just who's responsible for murdering those jurors who had unjustly convicted him. Again no one, the police the courts and even Joe Keats, were not at all interested in finding out who was the man who actually murdered the person whom Wharton was convicted of murdering! Even though with his last dying breath George Szabo identified him which resulted in the court, and prosecuting D.A, overturning Wharton's original death sentence!
As we watch, mostly off camera, most of the jurors in the Wharton murder trial get knocked off it doesn't take a genius to figure out just who's doing the knocking. The killer is so obvious to everyone, with his flimsy and unconvincing disguise, that by the time he finally reveals himself to juror, and reporter Keats' girlfriend, Alice Hill you felt like screaming at him, on the TV screen, "What the hell took you so long"!
Hard to stay awake throughout the entire film because you can see right from the start that it's not at all interested in who the killer who framed Wharton really is. All we get to see is ace crime reported Joe Keats run around in circles making a complete fool of himself and almost getting killed, in an overheated steam room no less, chasing the elusive killer! Who's about as elusive, to everyone but Keats and his girlfriend Alice, as an 800 pound gorilla stuffing himself with stacks of bananas in an outdoor or open air fruit market!