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Starring: Dana Andrews, Joan Fontaine, Sidney Blackmer, Ed Binns
| BEYOND A REASONABLE DOUBT is a movie directed by Fritz Lang in 1956.
Sidney Blackmer, an important newspaperman, is crusading against the attorney general of the state who is sending prisoners to the electric chair by the dozen. Blackmer wants to prove that an innocent man can be wongly executed if condemned on a circumstancial evidence basis. He convinces his daughter's boy-friend, Dana Andrews, to appear as the ideal suspect of a crime which has just happened in the city. Together, they leave some clues implicating Andrews near the crime scene. Andrews is soon arrested. Unfortunately, Blackmer, the only one who can prove his innocence, dies in a car accident during the trial. Will Dana Andrews die in the electric chair ? | ||
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Plot Time/Era of Movie: Legal/Political Thriller? Yes Actual chase scenes or violence - 10 % Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 60 % Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 30 % Legal Thriller Plotlets: - finding out whether someone is really guilty Main Character Identity: - Male Profession/status: Age: - 40's-50's Hair style - - short/standard wavy (man) Body type - average (man) Events of movie makes character more... - sad Ethnicity/Nationality - White (American) How sensitive is this character? - middling sensitive to others' feelings Intelligence - Smarter than most other characters Physique - average physique Secondary Main Character Identity: - Male Hair style Body type - average build (man) How much in movie? - 20% Ethnicity/Nationality - White (American) Main Adversary Identity: - Male Age: - 40's-50's Profession/status: How much of work is main antagonist actually present in: - 20% Hair type Body type - average (man) Ethnicity/Nationality - White (American) Intelligence - Average intelligence Physique - average physique How sensitive is this character? Setting United States Yes City? Yes Misc setting - prison Style Accounts of torture and death? - non-gory references to death/punishment Movie makes you feel... - challenged How many deaths in film? - 0 (not a murder mystery) Sex/nudity in movie? Yes What kind of sex: - kissing Check here if B&W Yes If Soundtrack VERY NOTICEABLE... - Orchestra/classical |
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