Verdict is a 1974 French-Italian drama film, directed by André Cayatte, starring Sophia Loren, Jean Gabin and Julien Bertheau.

[1] A French judge comes under intense personal pressure to acquit a man who is accused of murdering his lover.

The President of the Court Legun one evening, while he is at home alone with his wife Nicole, refuses to receive Mrs Teresa Léoni who would like to ask for mercy for her son André on trial for the rape and murder of Annie Chartier.

Then Teresa, widow of a bandit, convinced of her son's innocence, takes Mrs. Nicole hostage and blackmails her husband.

With this involuntary death on her conscience and after the confession of her freed son, Teresa throws herself with the car against a wall.