Beyond a Reasonable Doubt

6.9

United States Of America

Crime Drama

80 min

1956

Dana Andrews Wendell Niles John George Joe Kirk Carleton Young Joyce Taylor Rusty Lane Barbara Nichols Robin Raymond Shepperd Strudwick Edward Binns Philip Bourneuf Arthur Franz Sidney Blackmer Joan Fontaine Charles Evans

A newspaper publisher, wanting to prove a point about the insufficiency of circumstantial evidence, talks his possible son-in-law Tom into a hoax in an attempt to expose ineptitude of the city's hard-line district attorney. The plan is to have Tom plant clues leading to his arrest for killing a female nightclub dancer. Once Tom is found guilty, he is to reveal the setup and humiliate the DA.