An American Tragedy (Paramount) is courtroom melodrama, more morbid than exciting, in which chief interest centres on the efforts of a district attorney to bully a young scapegrace into making the conflicting statements which cause him to be convicted of first-degree murder. The first part of the picture somewhat sketchily outlines early episodes in the career of the murderer, Clyde Griffiths. He is shown as a bellhop, a tramp, a dishwasher, then as a foreman in the collar factory of a rich uncle. He seduces a factory...
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