What Sinners Gets Right About Family, Fear, and the Fight to Stay Human
The quiet ache of guilt sitting at the dinner table, the silence after a truth is buried, and the way pain is passed down like a name.
The Accusing Finger (1936)
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.
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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.
Rating:NR
Genre:Crime, Romance, Drama, Thriller
Written By:Madeleine Ruthven, Brian Marlow, John Bright, Robert Tasker
In Theaters:11/17/1936
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Runtime:61 minutes
Studio:Paramount Pictures
Cast
James P. Hogan
Director
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
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