Trial

  • Drama
10/7/1955
105
NR

Tense! Timely! Thrilling!

A Mexican boy accused of rape and murder becomes a pawn for Communists and red-baiters. A courtroom drama set in 1947 and underlying post-WW2 acute problems facing the USA such as stormy race relations and the growing threat of local communism.

Director:
Mark Robson
Writer:
Don Mankiewicz
    • new york city
    • anti-communism
    • lawyer
    • racism
    • los angeles, california
    • courtroom
    • defense attorney
    • post world war ii
    • mexican american
    • lynch mob
    • rape accusation
    • fundraising
    • juvenile crime
    • heart condition
    • mexican boy
    • apprentice lawyer
    • race relations
    • communist movement

    Cast

    • Glenn Ford
      David Blake
    • Dorothy McGuire
      Abbe Nyle
    • Arthur Kennedy
      Barney Castle
    • John Hodiak
      District Attorney John J. Armstrong
    • Katy Jurado
      Consuela Chavez
    • Rafael Campos
      Angel Chavez
    • Juano Hernández
      Judge Theodore Motley
    • Robert Middleton
      A.A. "Fats" Sanders
    • John Hoyt
      Ralph Castillo
    • Paul Guilfoyle
      Cap Grant
    • Elisha Cook Jr.
      Finn
    • Ann Lee
      Gail Wiltse
    • Whit Bissell
      Sam Wiltse
    • Richard Gaines
      Dr. Johannes Schacter
    • Barry Kelley
      Jim Brackett
    • Dorothy Green
      Mrs. Mary Ackerman (uncredited)

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