A southern town is rocked by scandal when teenager Mary Clay is murdered on Confederate Decoration Day. Andrew Griffin, a small-time lawyer with political ambitions, sees the crime as his ticket to the Senate if he can find the right victim to finger for the crime. He sets out to convict Robert Hale, a transplanted northerner who was Mary's teacher at the business school where she was killed. Despite the fact that all the evidence against Hale is circumstantial, Griffin works with a ruthless reporter to create a media frenzy of prejudice and hate against the teacher.
Directed by Mervyn LeRoy
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Cast
Claude Rains
District Attorney Andrew J. Griffin
Gloria Dickson
Sybil Hale
Edward Norris
Professor Robert Perry Hale
Otto Kruger
Michael Gleason
Allyn Joslyn
Bill Brock
Lana Turner
Mary Clay
Linda Perry
Imogene Mayfield
Elisha Cook Jr.
Joe Turner
Cy Kendall
Detective Laneart
Clinton Rosemond
Tump Redwine
E. Alyn Warren
Carlisle P. Buxton
Elisabeth Risdon
Mrs. Hale (as Elizabeth Risdon)
Clifford Soubier
Jim Timberlake
Granville Bates
Detective Pindar
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