Movie - The Sin of Nora Moran (1933)

Edith Crawford, the widow of Governor Dick Crawford, confronts her brother, District Attorney John Grant, with a stack of unsigned love letters she found in her husband's private safe. John advises her to burn them. Edith refuses, vowing to punish the author of the letters. John gives her a newspaper clipping about Nora Moran, the first woman to be executed in the electric chair in twenty years. On death row, and under sedation, Nora remembers the events of her life. A flashback occurs, in which Nora, a five-year-old girl, is adopted by the Morans from a Catholic orphanage. Eight years later, Nora's parents are killed in a car crash. Nora pays off her parents' debt, and seeks work as a chorus girl but is unsuccessful. Paulino, a lion tamer, hires Nora as his assistant. One night, while Nora is sleeping, Paulino rapes her.

Nora befriends an older woman named Sadie, who gives her a hundred dollars. Nora quits the circus, and works at a nightclub in New York. There, she meets and begins an affair with Dick Crawford. He brings her to a rental house over the state line where he can see her twice a week. Meanwhile, Grant grooms Crawford to run for governor to further his own political ambitions. With the election two weeks away, Grant grows suspicious of their affair, to which he investigates Nora's personal history, including her connection to the circus playing in town.

Crawford wins the governorship and Grant becomes the new district attorney. To keep Nora quiet, Grant offers Nora a kickback but she refuses. Two hours later, she calls Grant to the house and shows him Paulino's body. Paulino had discovered Nora and Crawford were seeing each other, and had come to blackmail her. To save Crawford's political reputation, Nora and Grant plan to cover up Paulino's death. Paulino's body is moved near the train, but Nora is apprehended and arrested for first-degree murder.

Nora does not testify in her defense, and is found guilty. In the present, Grant shows Edith another letter Crawford had written to him. Inside his governor's mansion, Crawford learns of Nora's execution, and becomes haunted by his past relationship to Nora. He then remembers his last night with Nora, in which Crawford drives to see her again at the house. There, he discovers her and Paulino together. Crawford fights Paulino and kills him. Feeling guilty of murder, Nora consoles Crawford, telling him their mutual happiness will not be tainted by his crime.

Inside his imagination, Crawford talks to Nora's spirit, who tells him she does not fear death. He tries to prevent the execution but is too late. Consumed with guilt, Crawford writes a letter to Grant, confessing his crime and shoots himself. In the present, with Edith's consent, Grant burns all of Crawford's letters.

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