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Released December 01, 1959
Featuring Joe Besser (Solo)
20th Century-Fox
123 min. (Feature Film)

Joe Besser filmed several scenes as 'Gallagher,' owner of the bar & grill frequented by Santini. But much of that footage was cut before the film's release, taking all of Joe's scenes with it.

Jo Morris' mother pleads with disillusioned attorney Victor Santini (Tony Franciosa) to take her daughter's murder case. Jo (Rita Hayworth) is accused of murdering her police detective husband, with the help of her lover Larry Ellis (Gig Young). In flashbacks, the story of Jo's unhappy marriage to an abusive, alcoholic husband is told. She meets tax accountant Ellis, a divorcee from a loveless marrigage, who recently lost his young son in an accident. The two begin an affair that quickly blooms into love. Jo's husband finds the two together, pulls his service revolver, but in a scuffle with Larry, he is accidentally killed.

The story moves forward in time, to the trial. The nature of the circumstantial evidence seems overwhelming, separately and together for the two lovers. But each refuses to blame the other, preferring to go to trial together, and be found guilty together if necessary. In addition to being a legal drama, the story is also a critique of the legal process.

Filmed in CinemaScope.

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STORY ON PAGE ONE, THE on IMDb

Rita Hayworth
Josephine Brown Morris

Gig Young
Larry Ellis

Anthony Franciosa
Victor Santini

Alfred Ryder
Lt. Mike Morris

Mildred Dunnock
Mrs. Ellis

Katherine Squire
Hattie Brown

Sheridan Comerate
Frank Morris

Joe McGuinn
Lt. Morris

Leo Penn
Morris Goetz

Richard LePore
Calvin Lewis

Biff Elliott
Eddie Ritter

Hugh Griffith
Judge Edgar Neilsen

Sanford Meisner
Prosecutor Phil Stanley

Robert Burton
D. A. Nordeau

Tom Greenway
Det. Capt. Kelly

Theodore Newton
Dr. Kemper

Jay Adler
Lauber

Miranda Jones
Miss Monroe

Harry Carter
Court bailiff

Dan Riss
Court clerk

George Turley
Court stenographer

Leonard George
Jury foreman

Virginia Carroll
Police matron

Jack Chefe
Man in courtroom

Joe Ploski
Man in courtroom

Art Salter
Bartender

Jerry Sheldon
Man in bar

Joe Besser
Gallagher, scenes deleted


Jerry Wald
Producer

Clifford Odets
Screenplay

James Wong Howe
Director of Photography

Hugh S. Fowler
Film Editor

Howard Richmond
Art Director

Lyle R. Wheeler
Art Director

Walter M. Scott
Set Decoration

G. W. Berntsen
Set Decoration

Edward B. Powell
Orchestration

Ben Nye
Makeup

Myrl Stoltz
Hair Stylist

Jack Gertsman
Assistant Director


















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