it be only the second year of the academy but already they be vote politically jeanne eagels brilliant performance in this creaky early talkie have to make do with an oscar nom and the statuette go to the bad performance ever to win mary pickford in coquette . the only exist print be a work print without music or final editing and but wherever it show and eagels stuns and captivates with her beguiling and powerful performance . she be so convincing on the witness stand that while we know she be lie through her teeth ( we do after all see her kill the man ) and we in the audience find ourselves and like the juror and believe in her innocence and before we suddenly catch ourselves . that be great act . the film need to be make available on video so that the world can enjoy this terrific performance again . ( one silent of jeanne exists in archive print man and woman and sin and her only other talkie and jealousy and be lose and so this be the only document we have of her . run to see it ( when it first come out of the archive to be show in nyc in the early 70 and the village voice print a full page review and worship the eagels performance ) .