Circumstantial Evidence (1945)
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Circumstantial Evidence is so expertly acted and directed that the audience is willing to forget its gaping logic holes. Pugnacious family man Joe Reynolds (Milo O'Shea), blowing his top as usual, threatens violence to an unlikeable storekeeper (Ben Welden). When the latter is killed, Joe is… More Circumstantial Evidence is so expertly acted and directed that the audience is willing to forget its gaping logic holes. Pugnacious family man Joe Reynolds (Milo O'Shea), blowing his top as usual, threatens violence to an unlikeable storekeeper (Ben Welden). When the latter is killed, Joe is arrested for murder. Thanks to circumstantial evidence and faulty eyewitness accounts, Joe is sentenced to death in what seems to be a matter of days-and never mind that the defense attorney hasn't the presence of mind to enter medical testimony into the record. While awaiting his fate on death row (one of the nicest, most inviting death rows in cinema history), Joe is regularly visited by his young son Pat (Billy Cummings), who has always believed in his dad's innocence. For Pat's sake, Joe escapes from prison on the eve of his execution. Meanwhile Pat and a family friend, postman Sam Lord (Lloyd Nolan), have sought out the eyewitnesses whose testimony cinched Joe's conviction; with a little gentle persuasion, the witnesses probe their memories and realize that they were mistaken, and that the victim's death was accidental. Armed with this new evidence, Pat and Sam convince Joe to break back into jail so that his release can be secured through the proper channels. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Directed By
- Charles Lamont
- Genres
- Drama, Mystery & Suspense, Classics
Unrated,
- In Theaters
- Mar 30, 1935 Wide
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Cast
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Michael O'Shea
as Joe Reynolds
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Lloyd Nolan
as Sam Lord
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Trudy Marshall
as Agnes Hannon
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Billy Cummings
as Pat
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Ruth Ford
as Mrs. Simms
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Reed Hadley
as Prosecutor
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Roy Roberts
as Marty Harmon
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Byron Foulger
as Bolger
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Dorothy Adams
as Bolger's wife
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John Eldredge
as Judge White
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Eddie Marr
as Mike
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Selmar Jackson
as Warden
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William B. Davidson
as Chairman
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John Hamilton
as Governor Hanlon
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Scotty Beckett
as Freddy Hanlon
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Ralph Dunn
as Cleary
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William Frambes
as Pete
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Ray Teal
as Policeman
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Ben Welden
as Kenny
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Lynn Whitney
as Kate Lord
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Thomas E. Jackson
as Detective
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Chick Chandler
as Jim Baldwin
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Shirley Grey
as Adrienne Grey
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Arthur Vinton
as Fred Stevens
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Dorothy Revier
as Bernice Winters
