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Douglas Morrow (story)
Release Date:
5 September 1956 (USA) more
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Put them all together they spell M-U-R-D-E-R ! more
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Writer sets himself up to take murder rap to show the errors of circumstantial evidence. With a friend... more | add synopsis
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Surprising Twist in a Great Film-Noir more (31 total)
Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Dana Andrews | ... | Tom Garrett | |
| Joan Fontaine | ... | Susan Spencer | |
| Sidney Blackmer | ... | Austin Spencer | |
| Arthur Franz | ... | Bob Hale | |
| Philip Bourneuf | ... | Roy Thompson | |
| Edward Binns | ... | Lt. Kennedy | |
| Shepperd Strudwick | ... | Jonathan Wilson | |
| Robin Raymond | ... | Terry Larue | |
| Barbara Nichols | ... | Dolly Moore | |
| William F. Leicester | ... | Charlie Miller (as William Leicester) | |
| Dan Seymour | ... | Greco | |
| Rusty Lane | ... | Judge | |
| Joyce Taylor | ... | Joan Williams | |
| Carleton Young | ... | Allan Kirk | |
| Trudy Wroe | ... | Hatcheck girl |
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80 min
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2.00 : 1 more
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Mono (RCA Sound Recording)
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USA:Approved (certificate #18013) | UK:PG (re-rating) (1990) | West Germany:12 (f) | UK:A (original rating) (1956) | Finland:K-16
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The last film that 'Fritz Lang' made in the USA before returning to Germany. more
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The owner of an important newspaper Austin Spencer (Sidney Blackmer) opposes to the capital punishment and particularly to the prosecutor Roy Thompson (Philip Bourneuf), who has just succeeded in a trial based on circumstantial evidences. When a dancer is strangled and the police have no suspect, Austin convinces his future son-in-law, the prominent writer Tom Garrett (Dana Andrews), to plant circumstantial evidences to self-incriminate, while he would hold pictures, receipts and other evidences of his innocence until the very last moment. Later Austin would begin a campaign in his newspaper disclosing the possibility of sending an innocent to the electric chair. They decide to hide the truth from Austin's daughter Susan (Joan Fontaine) since she could not support the situation under stress. When the jury withdraws from the court in the end of the trial to give the sentence, Austin takes the evidences that prove the innocence of Tom from his safe, but has a car accident and dies. Tom is sentenced to death penalty and tries to convince Susan of his innocence as his last hope.
"Beyond a Reasonable Doubt" is a great film-noir with a surprising twist in the very end. The plot seems to be naive who would accept to be accused of murder just to prove a point against the death penalty? but after the very last twist, the concept changes from naive to Machiavellian. I have glanced unfair reviews in IMDb that I do not agree, since I liked this movie a lot. My vote is eight.
Title (Brazil): "Suplício de uma Alma" ("Torment of a Soul")