Outcast

Outcast (Paramount). Though acquitted of murdering a woman who died of an overdose of sedative, Dr. Jones (Warren William) is disgraced, forced to retire to a small town where his name is unknown and where he can begin life anew with the help of old Lawyer Abbott (Lewis Stone). But Margaret Stevens (Karen Morley), sister-in-law of the dead woman, follows Dr. Jones, bent on revenge. She falls in love with him instead, is about to depart when her meddlesome landlady learns about the murder trial publishes the story in the village newspaper. Simultaneously, the landlady's little boy becomes seriously ill. When she yanks out the tube Dr. Jones has inserted in his throat, the boy dies. The overwrought town then launches a party to lynch both Dr. Jones and Miss Stevens. With masterful courtroom technique, Lawyer Abbott saves the day. A minor investigation of the same mob violence which made Fury one of last year's outstanding pictures, Outcast fails to achieve equal merit because of a top-heavy plot which takes an interminable while to get going.

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