>"You know the "street" in those flashbacks is actually indoors, right?"

I always guessed it was, because it has that "indoors" look to me, but I never knew where it was filmed before. Thank you so much for sharing the information and the anecdote! Yes, that is an outstanding location use.

>"The tavern and the courtroom are both the same common room"

This, I could tell, and I always assumed it was in fact part of the story -- that they were holding the court in the tavern, which was so common in the nineteenth-century US (in the west, etc.) that it didn't occur to me it would not also have happened in Ireland, England, Scotland or Wales (wherever that flashback happens, precisely -- Irish names on the characters are the only clue) though I now realize that any place that has a Conservatory should also have a courthouse!

On the other hand, what if it is not a court at all, but instead an inquest -- that is, the preliminary determination that there was a murder, before there can be a trial for murder? That wouldn't necessarily have to be held in a courthouse!

Hmmmm. We should see whether chelseagirl47 might be interested in sharing her expertise on the British nineteenth-century legal system / literature in this context! It's a Janette scene -- she might play! ;-)