Mr. District Attorney in the Carter Case (1941)
Género : Misterio, Crimen
Tiempo de ejecución : 1H 7M
Director : Bernard Vorhaus
Escritor : Sidney Sheldon, Ben Roberts
Sinopsis
Like the first entry, this one is played mostly for laughs, with Radio's Mister District Attorney. James Ellison replacing Dennis O'Keefe as feckless assistant DA P. Cadwallader Jones. The publisher of a tony fashion magazine is murdered, requiring Jones to sift through a colorful array of suspects. He is helped (?) along by snoopy girl reporter Terry Parker (Virginia Gilmore), who by default is the brightest character in the picture.
Betty Andrews, aunque inocente, es condenada por un robo en una tienda y, a pesar de los grandes esfuerzos de su abogada y trabajadora social, Mary Ellis, y de un reportero, Jim Brent en su nombre, es condenada a un año en una casa correccional. La Matrona Brackett gobierna con mano de hierro con la ayuda de las presas Frankie Mason, "La Duquesa" y Nita Lavore...
On parole after three years in prison, a football player (Robert Kent) encounters the man (Sidney Blackmer) who framed him.
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Philadelphia, 1976. The city of Brotherly Love is waging a successful war against crime led by its tough-talking mayor, Frank Rizzo. But a maverick investigative reporter, Jonathan Neumann, has heard some troubling rumors: stories of innocent people victimized by a "goon squad" of law enforcement officers.
Madan comes from a poor family background. Unable to find employment, he takes to gambling in order to pay for his sister's medical expenses. Soon, he forms a bond with Leena, a dancer, and is falsely accused of her murder.
Alfred Dreyfus, a German-Jewish captain serving in the French Army, is falsely accused of treason and made a scapegoat for military espionage in an act of institutional anti-Semitism. Sent to prison, he becomes a cause célèbre for the novelist Émile Zola, who dubs it the "Dreyfus Affair." Eventually, Dreyfus is pardoned when the military cover-up is made public, and he returns to France. But his name is forever tarnished by the accusations of treason.
Peter Sanderson (Steve Martin) es un abogado divorciado, mojigato y deprimido que sigue enamorado de su ex-mujer Kate (Jean Smart) y que no acaba de entender por qué ella le abandonó. Sin embargo, Peter intenta seguir adelante y liga con una inteligente y explosiva abogada a la que ha conocido en un chat de Internet. Pero cuando deciden verse las caras en casa de Peter, descubre que la chica es bastante vulgar, no pertenece a la elitista Liga Ivy y ni siquiera es abogada. En realidad se trata de Charlene Morton (Queen Latifah), una joven de color que se ha escapado de la cárcel y quiere que Peter le ayude a demostrar su inocencia.
Después de la pérdida de sus padres, Jordan es enviada a vivir con sus tíos en Silver Falls, un pequeño pueblo cercano a un oscuro bosque, donde pronto se verá acosada por una víctima del sangriento pasado del lugar.
A man is wrongly jailed for murder while the real killer roams free. The murderer is an intellectual frustrated with his country’s never-ending cycle of betrayal and apathy. The convict is a simple man who finds life in prison more tolerable, when something mysterious and strange starts happening to him.
This Universal programmer was based on a Collier's Magazine story by journalist Quentin Reynolds. This story in turn was ostensibly based on a true incident, in which a gangster "returned from the dead" to save an innocent young man from the electric chair. The nurse of the film's title is Katharine McDonald, who falls in love with her prizefighter-patient Lee Burke as he recovers from a beating received in a fixed prizefight. Katharine must fend off the advances of criminal attorney John Dodge, another patient who also loves her and becomes jealous of Lee. But when Lee is framed for the murder of his disgruntled manager, Slice, by a henchman of the fight-fix leader, Joe Largo, Dodge takes on his defense and works with Katherine to discover the real killer. Convicted and sentenced to death, Burke is about to walk the "last mile", as Katharine encourages mortally wounded Largo to a deathbed confession.
A singer pretends to be younger so she can enter a music school.
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A feature-length documentary about the Free Kevin movement and the hacker world.
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