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The Accusing Finger
1936, Nov 17
1h 1m
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.
Directed by
James P. Hogan
Ward Bond
Recreation Room Guard
Milburn Stone
Convict
Joe Sawyer
Father Reed, chaplain
Robert Cummings
Jimmy Ellis
Paul Fix
"Twitchy" Burke, the killer thief
William Hopper
Reporter
Marsha Hunt
Claire Patterson
Sam Flint
District Attorney Benton
Harry Carey
Sen. Nash
Russell Hicks
Vociferous Pro-Capital Punishment Senator
Kent Taylor
Jerry Welch
Dennis O'Keefe
Reporter
Harry Tyler
Man on Bus
William Worthington
Senator
Jonathan Hale
Special Prosecutor
Paul Newlan
Prisoner
George Irving
Judge's Voice
Selmer Jackson
Medical Examiner
Rolfe Sedan
First Waiter
Jack Perrin
Guard
Frank Marlowe
Convict
Al Hill
Reporter
Paul Kelly
Douglas Goodwin
Larry Steers
Senator
John Carroll
Dominic Petrelli, convict
Frank O'Connor
Deputy
Torben Meyer
Proprietor
Lee Phelps
Riley
Jimmy Conlin
(scene deleted)
Harry C. Bradley
Senator
Ellen Drew
Wife
Mae Busch
Younger Woman on Bus
Walter Long
Convict
DeWitt Jennings
Prison Warden
Frank Mayo
Copy Desk Editor
Sammee Tong
Chinese-American Convict
Edward Hearn
Bailiff
Ralph Lewis
Senator
Priscilla Lawson
Hat Check Girl
Arthur Loft
Convict
Kenneth Harlan
Police Surgeon
Fay Holden
Twitchy's Landlady
Phillips Smalley
Senator
George Chandler
Reporter
Matty Fain
Condemned Man
Thomas E. Jackson
Lead Investigator Logan
J.P. McGowan
Inner Guard
Harry Hayden
Clerical Employee
Rollo Lloyd
Dr. Simms
Fred Kohler
Curly-haired Convict
Robert McKenzie
Dialogue Restaurant Patron
Ben Hendricks Jr.
Convict
Hooper Atchley
Senator
Philo McCullough
Reporter in Senate Chamber
Frederick Burton
The Governor
James C. Morton
(scene deleted)
Hilda Vaughn
Muriel's Maid
Arthur Stuart Hull
Senator
Ralf Harolde
Lean, Angry Convict
Frank McLure
Restaurant Patron
Eddie Dunn
Sergeant at Arms
Bernadene Hayes
Muriel Goodwin
Walter McGrail
Guard
William Bailey
Reporter in Senate Chamber
Ivan Miller
Chairman of the Senate
James P. Burtis
Waiter
Edwin Stanley
Fingerprint Expert
Marten Lamont
Convict
Charles R. Moore
Black Prisoner
Ethel Clayton
Louis Mason
Higgins
Churchill Ross
Ballistic Expert
Irene Bennett
Glenn Belt
Detective Billings
Harry A. Bailey
Senator
Oscar 'Dutch' Hendrian
Convict
Frank Losee Jr.
Reporter
Nick Lukats
Reporter
Kitty McHugh
(scene deleted)
Charles McMurphy
Guard
Bruce Mitchell
Guard in Police Shower
Bob Perry
Escort Guard
Alexander Pollard
Headwaiter (extra)
Jack Raymond
Prisoner
Ronald R. Rondell
Restaurant Patron
Frank Rowan
Reporter
Arthur Van Slyke
Senator
Suzanne Willa
Older Woman on Bus
Gloria Williams
Passenger
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