Specialty CollectionGenre: FEATURE FILMS
Description: DRAMA BURGESS MEREDITH, MARGO, EDUARDO CIANNELLI, PAUL GUILFOYLE, JOHN CARRADINE, EDWARD ELLIS, STANLEY RIDGES, MAURICE MOSCOVICH, MYRON MCCORMICK, WILLARD ROBERTSON, MISCHA AUER, BARBARA PEPPER, LUCILLE BALL, ALEC CRAIG, HELEN JEROME EDDY, FERNANDA ELISCU, GEORGE HUMBERT, MURRAY ALPER, PAUL FIX, ALAN CURTIS, ARHTUR LOFT, OTTO HOFFMAN, GRACE HAYLE, AL HILL, BOBBY CALDWELL LOOSELY BASED ON THE TRIAL OF NICOLA SACCO AND BARTOLOMEO VANZETTI. BASED ON PLAY BY MAXWELL ANDERSON. MEREDITH IS THE SON OF CARRADINE, A RADICAL ITALIAN IMMIGRANT WHO HAD BEEN EXECUTED FOR MURDER ON FLIMSY EVIDENCE. IT IS NOW 15 YEARS LATER, AND BURGESS WANTS TO PROVE HIS FATHER'S INNOCENCE. THE FILM BEGINS WITH A PROLOG EXPLAININGHOW CARRADINE CAME TO BE EXECUTED. IN THE 1920S CIANNELLI, ACCOMPANIED BY HIS SIDEKICK RIDGES, AND GUILFOYLE, A MOST UNWILLING YOUNG MAN, STEAL A CAR THAT IS USED IN A PAYROLL ROBBERY. THE PAYMASTER IS MURDERED AND THE AUTOMOBILE IS ABANDONED. WHEN THE CAR IS FOUND BY THE POLICE, THEY DISCOVER SOME OF CARRADINE'S WRITINGS INSIDE AND WRONGFULLY PIN THE MURDER ON HIM. MEREDITH LEARNS THAT GUILFOYLE, WHO WAS IDENTIFIED BY MANY AS THE GETAWAY DRIVER, WAS NEVER CALLED BEFORE THE COURT TO TESTIFY IN CARRADINE'S BEHALF. BURGESS GETS INVOLVED WITH GUILFOYLE'S SISTER MARGO, AND THROUGH HIS DILIGENT EFFORTS IS ABLE TO CLEAR CARRADINE'S NAME. }S
