The Accusing Finger

  • Crime
  • Romance
  • Drama
  • Thriller
11/17/1936
61
NR

Condemned to share the fate of man he'd doomed!

A proud, pro-capital punishment district attorney with a 90% execution rate, finds himself wrongly convicted of murdering his estranged wife and sentenced to die. The woman he loves and his investigator rival for her affections rally to find the real killer, while he is confronted by the misery of life on death row.

Director:
James P. Hogan
Writers:
Brian Marlow
John Bright
Madeleine Ruthven
Robert Tasker
    • prison
    • love triangle
    • gun
    • death row
    • prison warden
    • murder
    • social commentary
    • secretary
    • electric chair
    • capital punishment
    • jewel thief
    • assistant district attorney
    • failing marriage
    • prison chaplain
    • circumstantial evidence
    • special investigator
    • slum doctor

    Cast

    • Paul Kelly
      Douglas Goodwin
    • Marsha Hunt
      Claire Patterson
    • Kent Taylor
      Jerry Welch
    • Robert Cummings
      Jimmy Ellis
    • Harry Carey
      Sen. Nash
    • Bernadene Hayes
      Muriel Goodwin
    • Hilda Vaughn
      Muriel's Maid
    • Thomas E. Jackson
      Lead Investigator Logan
    • DeWitt Jennings
      Prison Warden
    • Fred Kohler
      Curly-haired Convict
    • Ralf Harolde
      Lean, Angry Convict
    • Joe Sawyer
      Father Regan, chaplain
    • Paul Fix
      "Twitchy" Burke, the killer thief
    • Jonathan Hale
      Special Prosecutor
    • Sam Flint
      District Attorney Benton
    • John Carroll
      Dominic Petrelli, convict

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