After a forward introduces the question of whether women are temperamentally suited for jury duty, Jim O'Neil, a young shipping clerk, is found holding a revolver over his dead employer, Edward Knox. The celebrated novelist Grace Norton, selected to be on the jury at Jim's trial, becomes the first woman juror in New York.
Florence Reed | Grace Norton |
Hugh Thompson | John Schuyler |
Gareth Hughes | Jim O'Neil |
David Powell | Edward Knox |
Florida Kingsley | Mrs. O'Neill |
Mildred Cheshire | Helen |
May McAvoy | Edith Norton |
Harold Entwistle | The Judge |
Tom McGuire | District Attorney |
Walter McEwen | Defense Attorney |
Edward Brennen | Clerk of the Court |
Frank De Camp | Jury Foreman |