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28 April 1947 (Sweden)
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It comes back at you again and again!
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The true story of a prosecutor's fight to prove the innocence of a man accused of a notorious murder. full summary | add synopsis
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District Attorney
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Nominated for Oscar.
Another 2 wins
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Connections to Death of a Salesman -- Elia Kazan, Lee J. Cobb, and Arthur Kennedy
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Cast
(Complete credited cast) | Dana Andrews | ... | State's Atty. Henry L. Harvey |
 | Jane Wyatt | ... | Madge Harvey |
 | Lee J. Cobb | ... | Chief Harold F. 'Robbie' Robinson |
| Cara Williams | ... | Irene Nelson - Waitress at Coney Island Cafe |
| Arthur Kennedy | ... | John Waldron |
| Sam Levene | ... | Dave Woods - 'Morning Record' Reporter |
| Taylor Holmes | ... | T.M. Wade |
| Robert Keith | ... | Mac McCreery |
 | Ed Begley | ... | Paul Harris |
| Philip Coolidge | ... | Jim Crossman |
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88 min
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1.37 : 1 more
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Mono (Western Electric Recording)
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Based on a case of Homer Stille Cummings, as a Connecticut state attorney, who later became the 55th U.S. Attorney General.
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...But his everyday work was with the people of his parish, and especially with those who sought his advice and counsel. Since he was a man of God, his labors sometimes led him into the strains and secret places of mens' souls. He was just and forgiving, but he was also a man, and a stern and uncompromising judge of character.
Father George A. Lambert: [Speaking to an anguished-looking middle-aged man] Stop that! Even if I wanted to forgive you, I... I couldn't. It's out of my hands.
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Father George A. Lambert: Jim, you're a sick man.
Jim Crossman - Killer: But Father, I...
Father George A. Lambert: We've been through it all before. I can't help you - the sanitarium, perhaps...
Jim Crossman - Killer: No, I won't! If... if people would just...
Father George A. Lambert: It's not people, son; it's you. I told you that before. This time, fortunately, no great harm has been done. But the next time... No, I can't let you go any longer; it's got to be the sanitarium. Have you spoken to your mother about this?
Jim Crossman - Killer: [panicked] You wouldn't tell *her*!
Father George A. Lambert: I haven't spoken to anyone.
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Father George A. Lambert: [Speaking to an anguished-looking middle-aged man] Stop that! Even if I wanted to forgive you, I... I couldn't. It's out of my hands.
[pause]
Father George A. Lambert: Jim, you're a sick man.
Jim Crossman - Killer: But Father, I...
Father George A. Lambert: We've been through it all before. I can't help you - the sanitarium, perhaps...
Jim Crossman - Killer: No, I won't! If... if people would just...
Father George A. Lambert: It's not people, son; it's you. I told you that before. This time, fortunately, no great harm has been done. But the next time... No, I can't let you go any longer; it's got to be the sanitarium. Have you spoken to your mother about this?
Jim Crossman - Killer: [panicked] You wouldn't tell *her*!
Father George A. Lambert: I haven't spoken to anyone.
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Featured in Elia Kazan: A Director's Journey (1995)
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America, the Beautiful
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Boomerang! (1947) has a number of interesting connections to Arthur Miller's Pulitzer Prize-winning Death of a Salesman on Broadway. Elia Kazan, Boomerang!'s director, also directed Miller's All My Sons on Broadway the same year the film was released.
Less than two years after Boomerang!, Kazan began casting and directing Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman, which began rehearsals in the fall of 1948 and opened on Broadway on February 10, 1949. Death of a Salesman was written in the spring of 1948, and Kazan was on board to direct it soon after.
1949's Death of a Salesman on Broadway starred Lee J. Cobb as Willy Loman and Arthur Kennedy as his son, Biff. In Boomerang! (1947), Lee Cobb portrays Chief Robinson and Arthur Kennedy plays the murder suspect, John Waldron.
Of course, Arthur Miller also makes his film "debut" in Boomerang! He's the line-up suspect who towers over the policeman. Don't blink or you'll miss him. Miller would not "act" in a film again until 1974, in a film titled The Rehearsal.
Interestingly, Miller originally wrote the part of Willy Loman as a small man, a la Dustin Hoffman, not a hulking one like Lee J. Cobb, or, more recently, Brian Dennehy. So Kazan opted to cast Lee Cobb in Death of a Salesman based on his work with the actor on Boomerang!, and against Miller's original conception of Willy Loman. At one point in the play/movie, for example, Willy tells his wife about a buyer who slandered him. In the original version, Miller wrote the slur as "shrimp." After Kazan cast Lee J. Cobb in the play, the put-down was changed to "walrus."