The Man Who Dared (1939)

Directors

Crane Wilbur

Cast

Jane Bryan

The story

In the late 1930s, whistleblower Stuart McCrary, and his wife Mary are killed by Nick Bartel and other henchmen of the town's corrupt mayor to prevent McCrary's upcoming grand jury testimony. The neighboring Carter family witnesses the murders. After the mayor uses intimidation, assault and the kidnapping of the Carters' young son Bill to prevent them from testifying against Bartel, only the boy's grandfather Ulysses Porterfield has the courage to testify.

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