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Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (1956)  link to Beyond a Reasonable Doubt on IMDb  

Number: 3209

poster Beyond a Reasonable Doubt

IMDb Rating:
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7.0/10 (4029 votes)

Country: USA, 80 minutes

Spoken Languages: English

Genre(s): Drama, Crime, Film-Noir

Director(s): Fritz Lang

Video Codec: Unknown

Storyline:
Investigative reporter Tom Garrett is on leave from his newspaper job to work on his second novel. As Tom is having problems writing that second book, his boss and future father-in-law, newspaper publisher Austin Spencer, suggests he write a non-fiction book on capital punishment in their state instead. Both Austin and Tom have long believed that the state district attorney, Roy Thompson, has been able to manipulate juries into rendering wrongful guilty verdicts leading to the deaths of innocent people on death row. The plan would be to plant evidence leading to a guilty verdict of an innocent person in a murder case, Tom to be that innocent person. Austin and Tom would document all that planted evidence, and make it public after the rendering of the guilty verdict to reverse that wrongful verdict and hopefully lead to discussion of the merits of abolishing capital punishment. They decide that the fewer people that know about the plan, the better, which means not telling Tom's fiancée...

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Cast:

photo Dana Andrews Dana Andrews Tom Garrett
photo Joan Fontaine Joan Fontaine Susan Spencer
photo Sidney Blackmer Sidney Blackmer Austin Spencer
photo Arthur Franz Arthur Franz Bob Hale
photo Philip Bourneuf Philip Bourneuf Dist. Atty. Roy Thompson

Medium: Unknown,

Loaned: No

Aspect ratio: 1.85:1