This movie just seems to take on too much and it just doesn't work. It stars out with Glenn Ford working as a law professor who is about to be fired unless he gets some actual trial experience. He goes to several different lawyers but is turned down until he runs into Arthur Kennedy. Dorothy McGuire is his assistant and begins a relationship with Ford. They get a young Mexican boy accused of murdering a white girl as a client and Ford and Kennedy seem to be going in different directions on the case. Ford actually wants to save the boy but Kennedy just wants to raise money and make a martyr out of him but he can't do that unless the boy is found guilty. They even bring up communism in here and it just seems they bring up too much in not enough time.
