They Won't Forget (1937)

Plotzle Expert · E101 · June 10, 2026 · Drama / Mystery

Six plot descriptions for They Won't Forget (1937). One is the real plot. Five are convincing fakes. Read them and guess which is real.

1. A politically ambitious southern lawyer exploits a teenager's murder on Confederate Decoration Day to prosecute her northern teacher using only circumstantial evidence, collaborating with a ruthless reporter to inflame regional prejudice and advance his Senate aspirations.
2. Three childhood friends reunite at their hometown's demolished textile mill where one of them buried evidence from a hit-and-run accident they witnessed but never reported decades earlier.
3. An immigration judge reviews asylum cases knowing her rulings determine deportations while her own undocumented housekeeper raises her children and manages her prescriptions in their shared suburban home.
4. A paroled arsonist returns to rural Idaho seeking forgiveness from his daughter while the families of his victims organize to drive him out before the anniversary vigil begins.
5. A forensic accountant in Detroit discovers his late brother's embezzlement scheme but realizes exposing it would bankrupt the widows who unknowingly benefited from the stolen pension funds.
6. A small-town coroner falsifies autopsy reports to protect a pharmaceutical company's experimental drug trial as patients continue dying from complications that he attributes to preexisting conditions instead.