PROCESSION IS THE FIRST FILM SCRIPT DEPICTING THE LIFE, LOVES AND TRIAL OF RUTH SNYDER. HER UNSPEAKABLE CRIME OF PASSION AMID THE GLAMOUR OF THE 1920'S JAZZ AGE SHATTERED THE REPRESSIVE CONVENTIONS OF SUBURBAN MIDDLE CLASS WOMEN AND THREATENED THE MALE DOMAIN OF MARRIAGE AND FIDELITY. HER CRIME AND TRIAL DOMINATED THE HEADLINES FOR MANY MONTHS AND HER EXECUTION BECAME AN EARLY RALLYING CRY FOR THE LIBERATION OF WOMEN EVERYWHERE.