Judgment Deferred

Judgment Deferred
Australian daybill poster
Directed by	John Baxter
Produced by	John Baxter Barbara K. Emary
Screenplay by	Barbara K. Emary Walter Meade Geoffrey Orme
Starring	Hugh Sinclair Helen Shingler Abraham Sofaer Joan Collins
Music by	Kennedy Russell
Cinematography	Arthur Grant
Edited by	Vi Burdon
Production company	Group 3
Distributed by	Associated British Film Distributors (UK)
Release date	February 1952 (UK)
Running time	88 min
Country	Britain
Language	English

Judgment Deferred is a 1952 British drama film directed by John Baxter and starring Hugh Sinclair, Helen Shingler and Abraham Sofaer. The film is a remake of the director's earlier film, Doss House (1933), and features an early performance from Joan Collins. It was the first production from Group 3, a company formed to encourage new young British film-makers (which later produced The Brave Don't Cry, Conflict of Wings, The Angel Who Pawned Her Harp and several other low-budget features).

With the assistance of a journalist a group of refugees and down and outs try and unmask the criminal who has framed one of their number as a drug dealer.

The Radio Times described the film as "a muddled, maudlin melodrama that feels like substandard Frank Capra done by amateur theatricals."TV Guide found the film "captivating mainly because of the novelty of the story and the many strange characters that are introduced." Sky Movies wrote "this one occasionally creaks under the strain of its longish running time but offers some striking tableaux, especially within the weird 'court' held by a crowd of criminals, eccentrics and jobless that in some ways recalls the 'jury' that proved the nemesis of Peter Lorre in Fritz Lang's classic thriller 'M'."