DESIGN FOR SCANDAL
(M.G.M.)
ANYBODY but an American would, one feels, have hesitated to make Design for Scandal, for there are laws in most other countries, aren’t there,
against saying or doing anything likely to bring the Courts into contempt and Justice into disrepute? But in America it seems that the laws must be different, as well as the Law itself, For this picture records a conspiracy by a loud mouthed capitalist (Edward Arnold) and his agent (Walter Pidgeon) to ruin the reputation of a woman judge of the U.S. Supreme Court (Rosalind Russell) in order that she shall be removed from the’ bench and the Capitalist won’t have to pay such heavy alimony. To carry out this major crime, Mr. Pidgeon commits such lesser ones as misrepresentation (pretending to be an artist), bribery, and unlawful use of premises, not to mention such social offences as tampering with her Honor’s affections, falsehood, gate-crashing, and boorish behaviour generally. For all this he deserves at least a long stretch at hafd labour. But while the Capitalist does suffer to the extent of having to continue his heavy alimony payments, the other-who thought of the scheme besides carrying it out-gets off scot-free and with a blessing from the bench. Reason: he was in love with Her Honor the Judge from the moment he saw her. Amor vincit justitiam!
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 7, Issue 161, 24 July 1942, Page 16
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225DESIGN FOR SCANDAL New Zealand Listener, Volume 7, Issue 161, 24 July 1942, Page 16
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