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Beyond a Reasonable Doubt is a 1956 American film noir legal drama directed by Fritz Lang and written by Douglas Morrow. The film stars Dana Andrews, Joan Fontaine, Sidney Blackmer, and Arthur Franz. It was Lang's second film for producer Bert E. Friedlob, and the last American film he directed.
Beyond a Reasonable Doubt: Directed by Fritz Lang. With Dana Andrews, Joan Fontaine, Sidney Blackmer, Arthur Franz. A novelist aided by his future father-in-law conspires to frame himself for the murder of a burlesque dancer as part of an effort to ban capital punishment.
- (5.9K)
- Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
- Fritz Lang
- 1956-11
Novelist Tom Garrett (Dana Andrews) and publisher Austin Spencer (Sidney Blackmer) intend to show how lawyer Roy Thompson (Philip Bourneuf) has been using circumstantial evidence in capital...
- (19)
- Dana Andrews
- Fritz Lang
- Mystery & Thriller
A newspaper publisher, wanting to prove a point about the insufficiency of circumstantial evidence, talks his possible son-in-law Tom into a hoax in an attempt to expose ineptitude of the city's hard-line district attorney.
When a dancer is strangled and the police have no suspect, Austin convinces his future son-in-law, the prominent writer Tom Garrett, to plant circumstantial evidences to self-incriminate, while he would hold pictures, receipts and other evidences of his innocence until the very last moment.
1956. Directed by Fritz Lang. Put them all together they spell M-U-R-D-E-R ! A newspaper publisher, wanting to prove a point about the insufficiency of circumstantial evidence, talks his possible son-in-law Tom into a hoax in an attempt to expose ineptitude of the city’s hard-line district attorney.
Thematically, the film exposes the moral risks of capital punishment through the concoction of a wild journalistic scheme: newspaper editor Austin Spencer (Sidney Blackmer) persuades his top reporter Tom Garrett (Dana Andrews), who’s currently on book leave, to plant evidence in an open investigation of the murder of a burlesque dancer ...
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