The true story of a reporter's attempts to free a man found guilty of murder. Set in Chicago and filmed primarily on location this type of film helped start a trend of on location filming getting Hollywood out of the studios. The film appears to be a mixture of fact and fiction, although the basic story seems accurate.
James Stewart plays the reporter in reality actually a composite of two reporters working for the Chicago Times newspaper. Stewart is on screen practically the whole time and gives a strong understated performance. Probably legendary tough guy director Henry Hathaway had something to do with keeping his "aw shucks" mannerisms under control.
Audiences today would probably find the film a little slow and lacking action, but this is really more of a procedural story with Stewart slowly unraveling with happened the day a policeman was shot and how an innocent man was arrested and sentenced for the crime
Written by Jerome Cady, Jay Dratler, Leonard Hoffman and Quentin Reynolds. The running time is 111 minutes.
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