They Won't Believe Me

In testimony at a murder trial, investment broker Larry Ballentine is relaying to the court his recent love life. Anyone walking into the courtroom at this moment will soon realize that Larry is the person on trial, the prosecution already having made their case. In his account, Larry will tell of three women. The first is his wife Greta Ballentine. Larry readily admits that he married Greta solely for her money, something that she too came to realize in addition to finding out there was another woman in Larry's life. Greta, controlling the situation with the power of money behind her, laid the rule that she would not leave him; he could leave her if he chose, but it would be without her money or, by association, the influence that money would wield in his professional life. The second is magazine writer Janice Bell, a friend of both Larry and Greta with whom Larry fell in love. Their relationship only made it to the stage of clandestine public meetings, same time, same out-of-the-way place every week as they mapped their future before that ultimatum by Greta, with Larry choosing the money over Janice. And the third is Larry's colleague at an investment firm, Verna Carlson. Verna demonstrated that she was an openly scheming woman, something that even Preston, her boss and Larry's business partner, could see. In their attraction to each other, Larry and Verna contemplated being able to eat their cake and have it in wanting to be together with money. Can Larry convince the jury that he didn't kill anyone, let alone commit the murder for which he is charged, with his testimony the centerpiece of the defense?