Movie Info: Cause célèbre (1987)

Director: John Gorrie

Writer: Ken Taylor, Terence Rattigan

Producer: Producer: John Rosenberg

Genre: Drama, Romance, Tv Movie

In this dramatic retelling of a true-life event from 1935, Helen Mirren plays Alma Rattenbury, an adulterous wife whose husband meets a brutal end at the hands of her much younger lover. Despite evidence suggesting the lover's guilt, Alma confesses to the murder in a desperate attempt to protect him...