, 1h54 Directed byDavid Lean, George Pollock OriginUnited-kingdom GenresDrama, Biography, Crime ActorsAnn Todd, Norman Wooland, Ivan Desny, Leslie Banks, Barbara Everest, Susan Stranks Roles Janet Smith Rating68% The film dramatizes events leading up to the 1857 trial of an otherwise-respectable young woman, Madeleine Smith (Ann Todd), for the murder of her draper's-assistant lover, Emile L'Angelier (Ivan Desny). The trial produced the uniquely Scottish verdict of "not proven", which left Madeleine a free woman.