The Man Who Dared (1946)
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Directors
John Sturges
Cast
Forrest Tucker, George Macready
The story
It tells the story of a reporter who concocts a false case so as to get himself convicted for first degree murder. He does this to prove that a death sentence could be erroneously issued based on circumstantial and flawed evidence and that the death penalty should be abolished.
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