Not a mystery, but a variation on "Crime and Punishment": Ruth Chatterton commits a murder, someone else takes the blame, but she is haunted by her conscience. Ruth is very good, but the film is nothing special. And - spoilers - the amnesia ending lets her off the hook morally, when for example in another film I watched recently, "Letty Lynton" (1932), Joan Crawford never regretted and never forgot the murder she committed. So yes, this movie does have a pre-code conclusion, but that movie (among others) had a pre-coder one. ** out of 4.
Review of Journal of a Crime
