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When a confused eyewitness identifies New York City cabbie Brick Tennant (Henry Fonda) as a killer, he is sentenced to death for a murder that he wasn't involved in. Though no one is willing to listen to the innocent prisoner's pleas for freedom, Brick's faithful fiancée, Mary (Maureen O'Sullivan), knows that her lover is innocent -- because she was with him when the crime was committed. As the scheduled execution draws ever nearer, Mary begins to investigate the murder herself.
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Robert Daniels RogerEbert.com By the end, Fonda is a completely different person — draped in an uncontrollable rage that foreshadows the later darkened turn he’d take in “Once Upon a Time in the West.” Aug 24, 2024 Full Review Dennis Schwartz Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews It's one of those familiar race against time thrillers to save an innocent man from the electric chair. Rated: B- Oct 21, 2014 Full Review Sean Axmaker Parallax View What Brahm brings to the film is a terror born of official indifference... and he turns the race to stop the execution into a battle with bureaucracy. Mar 24, 2013 Full Review Read all reviews

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Steve D Ok but you have seen it all before. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 05/20/23 Full Review Audience Member How Many Wrongfully Convicted People are there Throughout American History? We can all marvel and be ashamed at what is happening today in certain cases across the country where the police maim and/or kill innocent people and never face a penalty for doing so. The police have become a scary brood of miscreants in the 21st century. Were they even worse in the 20th? We all hoped "modern" technologies, like DNA analysis, would stop the police from arresting innocent people. But it still goes on today. How many people right now, who are totally innocent, are locked in prisons? A majority? Maybe not, but it seems like this could be true because of police ineptitude and the inability of these forces to admit when they are wrong. This is scandalous. It would have been better had Columbia totally ignored the protestations of Massachusetts and instead portrayed the entire story accurately. Maybe we wouldn't be in such a national quandary today if the institutions set up to protect us admitted their mistakes and planned to do things differently in the future. Police departments are still not at this point, believing that whatever they do is right and should not be questioned. Books should be written about all the cases on unjust convictions and people set up by the police -- who lose their entire lives because the police department will not reassess or take responsibility for work that is wrong. Because Columbia hid the truth from the public, this B-movie gets only two stars. They could have made this something big and positive, but caved in to political pressure. Rated 1 out of 5 stars 02/16/23 Full Review Audience Member very dark but still very watchable Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/21/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis When a confused eyewitness identifies New York City cabbie Brick Tennant (Henry Fonda) as a killer, he is sentenced to death for a murder that he wasn't involved in. Though no one is willing to listen to the innocent prisoner's pleas for freedom, Brick's faithful fiancée, Mary (Maureen O'Sullivan), knows that her lover is innocent -- because she was with him when the crime was committed. As the scheduled execution draws ever nearer, Mary begins to investigate the murder herself.
Director
John Brahm
Producer
William Perlberg
Screenwriter
Anthony Veiller, Allen Rivkin
Production Co
Columbia
Genre
Crime, Drama
Original Language
English
Release Date (Streaming)
Dec 15, 2010
Runtime
1h 6m
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