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The Man Who Dared is a 1946 American film noir crime film directed by John Sturges, which serves as the first film he directed. Plot. It tells the story of a reporter who concocts a false case so as to get himself convicted for first degree murder.
With Leslie Brooks, George Macready, Forrest Tucker, Charles D. Brown. A crusading reporter plans his own arrest and conviction for first degree murder, trying to show that the death sentence should be outlawed when based on circumstantial evidence alone, but his plan goes awry.
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- Adventure, Crime, Drama
- John Sturges
- 1946-05-30
The theme of a man wrongly convicted of murder based on manufactured circumstantial evidence is similar to The Man Who Dared, but other aspects of the two films differ significantly.
The screenplay was adapted from a radio script by Maxwell Shane and Alex Gottlieb, and was first shown as the bottom-half of a double feature with the top-billed “Without Reservations” at Hollywood’s Pantages Theatre: A newspaper columnist, against capital punishment and crusading against murder convictions based on circumstantial evidence, tampers with evidence found at a murder scene in such a manner that it leads to him being accused of the crime, convicted and on his way to the ...
Synopsis. Donald Wayne, a newspaper columnist known for his outspoken criticism of court convictions resulting from circumstantial evidence, finds himself on trial for the murder of gangster Andrew White. During the trial, Darrell Tyson, the district attorney, calls Andrew's fiance, Lorna Claibourne, to the witness stand.
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The Man Who Dared (1946) Directed by John Sturges Genres - Action-Adventure , Crime , Drama | Release Date - May 30, 1946 | Run Time - 66 min. | Countries - United States of America |
