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The suspect in a 12-year-old murder case is finally caught and tried, but the witnesses are a bit hard to track down...The suspect in a 12-year-old murder case is finally caught and tried, but the witnesses are a bit hard to track down...The suspect in a 12-year-old murder case is finally caught and tried, but the witnesses are a bit hard to track down...
Iris Adrian
- Marie
- (uncredited)
Vince Barnett
- Joe
- (uncredited)
Michael Barrett
- Eddie Dalbo
- (uncredited)
Al Bridge
- Ulysses Grant Sheldon
- (uncredited)
John Butler
- Alice's Landlord
- (uncredited)
Frank Cady
- Showbox Puppeteer
- (uncredited)
Robert Cavendish
- Dan Brian
- (uncredited)
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- TriviaThough apparently unrelated, this film has several similarities to The Fugitive (1963), including the protagonists' names (Richard Kincaid and Richard Kimble), both having been wrongly convicted of murder, subsequently escaping custody, and taking a series of menial jobs in a variety of towns; also a one-armed man plays an important role in both.
- GoofsWhen Paul Bennett is talking to his father in the hospital after the car chase, the man in the background turns twice to walk off screen.
- Quotes
Kerry McGuire: He's right. I've drunk better alcohol out of compasses.
- ConnectionsReferenced in Major Crimes: Poster Boy (2013)
- SoundtracksWishing Will Make It So
(uncredited)
Written by Buddy G. DeSylva
Performed by Lynne Roberts
[Sally sings the song in the opening scene at the bar]
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Gig Young and Harry Shannon make such a likeable team as father & son sleuths it's too bad this absorbing little RKO potboiler didn't lead to a series.
James Anderson learns the hard way that no good deed goes unpunished when his bravery during a holdup reawakens interest in a murder he was accused of a dozen years earlier. The downward mobility most of those present on that fateful night twelve years earlier (one blind, one drunk, one mad) paints a surprisingly downbeat picture of life scraping along the bottom in the good old U. S. of A.
James Anderson learns the hard way that no good deed goes unpunished when his bravery during a holdup reawakens interest in a murder he was accused of a dozen years earlier. The downward mobility most of those present on that fateful night twelve years earlier (one blind, one drunk, one mad) paints a surprisingly downbeat picture of life scraping along the bottom in the good old U. S. of A.
- richardchatten
- Feb 17, 2022
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- Also known as
- Public Defender
- Filming locations
- Cahuenga Blvd., Hollywood, California, USA(the chase scene that ends with the deaths of Lefty McGuire and the two thugs who shot him was filmed on the section of Cahuenga Boulevard that runs along the East side of the Hollywood Freeway near the Mulholland Bridge in the Cahuenga Pass)
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- Runtime1 hour 9 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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