Geronimo1967
When young lawyer Raymond (Raymond Hackett) is tasked with defending a self-confessed murderess, he tries to learn a little of just what drove her to commit a crime that she wont explain nor attempt to hide from. Its that retrospective that introduces us to Madame X. She (Ruth Chatterton) was a young woman married to an indifferent man Louis (Lewis Stone) whose unkindness drove her into the arms of another man. He died quite quickly afterwards, and her jealous husband forbade her access to their three year old son. Disconsolate, the woman took to a path of destitution and absinthe and that ultimately saw her in the courtroom. What we all know, though, is that this young man is the son of the powerful Attorney General of France, and that he ...