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