Very good film showing how the Communist Party in the United States tried to exploit a case of where a young Mexican boy was accused of killing an American girl. It's all for the cause, even if it means that the Mexican, is put to death.
What a year 1955 was for Glenn Ford. Besides this film, he made "Blackboard Jungle," and the equally wonderful "Interrupted Melody."
Arthur Kennedy gained still another Oscar nomination, but always in a losing effort, as the lawyer who takes him in to defend the case, while Kennedy has an entirely different agenda.
Dorothy McGuire, Kennedy's aide, falls for Ford and later informs him of her unwillingness to accept the party line.
Just like "The Manchurian Candidate," this is a frightening film of subversion in the good old U.S.A.
Of course, Katie Jurado is the mother of the accused and she rattles off that same emotion as she did a year earlier in her Oscar nominated "Broken Lance."
What a year 1955 was for Glenn Ford. Besides this film, he made "Blackboard Jungle," and the equally wonderful "Interrupted Melody."
Arthur Kennedy gained still another Oscar nomination, but always in a losing effort, as the lawyer who takes him in to defend the case, while Kennedy has an entirely different agenda.
Dorothy McGuire, Kennedy's aide, falls for Ford and later informs him of her unwillingness to accept the party line.
Just like "The Manchurian Candidate," this is a frightening film of subversion in the good old U.S.A.
Of course, Katie Jurado is the mother of the accused and she rattles off that same emotion as she did a year earlier in her Oscar nominated "Broken Lance."