NAME THAT MOVIE #3

Below you will find an accurate description of the plot of a famous movie. It's just that the description is couched in unexpected terms.

A well-to-do military man and a show girl... they may seem an odd couple, and the romance is short-lived. He's dead, she's arrested and endures a difficult trial. Meanwhile, she has lent supposrt to another prisoner and has fallen under the loving and/or lustful gaze of both a writer and an officious stuffed shirt.  Old stuffed shirt has an award-winning associate who saves the girl from a nasty drop, after which she moves in with him. The assistant loves his job, although he suffers a disability because of it. An assault on God's domain results in death and injury. Eventually, old stuffed shirt pays for his hypocrisy, the writer and the show girl face a shared future, and the assistant asks a poignant question of a silent observer.

(I will note that this story has been filmed more than once and, while most of the above matches all of the various versions, there are elements which are particular to this one movie.)