A murder mystery film for you all tonight with one murder, two confessions and a third person awaiting hanging for the killing. It’s an odd film but one with a little bit of humour injected into it as well, which is unusual for this type of movie. Thru Different Eyes is the story of a District Attorney who is lecturing law students on the subject of circumstantial evidence. He uses a recent murder case to illustrate some of the difficulties in dealing with such evidence and tells the story of the killing and how a different point of view changes everything.

District Attorney Stephen Pettijohn is handling the murder of a banker, James Gardner, who had refused to give his wife a divorce. Following the refusal the banker is found dead that night, killed by a bullet wound to the head. All the circumstantial evidence points to a man called Harry Beach being the murder and he was duly arrested, tried, convicted and sentenced to hang. Beach denies being the murderer but as he has been convicted the law must take its course.

However, shortly before the hanging there appear two apparent confessions to the murder, one from the widow and one from a man called Farnsworth, that Constance, the banker’s widow had been having an affair with. There then follows a frantic search for evidence not so much by the DA but by the DA’s wife who is convinced that Harry Beach is innocent and that the real murderer must be either Constance or Farnsworth. She then tries to find evidence, sometimes in a quasi-comical fashion, that will exonerate Beach and save him from the gallows.

As I said earlier this is an odd film but an interesting one which I enjoyed and I hope you will enjoy it too.