The Accusing Finger (1936)
Condemned to share the fate of man he'd doomed!
61 min
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.
- Release date
- November 17, 1936
- Country of origin
- United States
Cast
- Paul Kelly as Douglas Goodwin
- Marsha Hunt as Claire Patterson
- Kent Taylor as Jerry Welch
- Robert Cummings as Jimmy Ellis
- Harry Carey as Sen. Nash
- Bernadene Hayes as Muriel Goodwin
- Joe Sawyer as Father Reed - the Priest
- DeWitt Jennings as Prison Warden
- Russell Hicks as Senator Forrest
- Jonathan Hale as Special Prosecutor
Crew
- James P. Hogan · Director
- Madeleine Ruthven · Writer
- Brian Marlow · Writer
- John Bright · Writer
- Robert Tasker · Writer
- Henry Sharp · Cinematographer
- Chandler House · Editor