Post by Eλευθερί on Apr 12, 2021 16:45:54 GMT
Inspired by a true story. James Stewart as a Chicago reporter who tries to find out whether a man given a life-sentence 11 years earlier during Prohibition for killing a police officer has been wrongly convicted.
Stewart is always a compelling actor to watch, but his acting is not really convincing in the first part of the film, where the reporter keeps insisting he thinks the convict is really guilty, and he keeps trying to get off the case but his editor (Lee J. Cobb) keeps making him pursue it further. The later parts of the film are interesting in showing an image of investigative journalism, policing, and the justice system in the 1940s, decades before public consciousness would be changed by the revelations of Frank Serpico and incidents like the police torture of Abner Louima, the murder of Laquan McDonald, and the exposure of the Jon Burge torture machine.
6.5/10
Stewart is always a compelling actor to watch, but his acting is not really convincing in the first part of the film, where the reporter keeps insisting he thinks the convict is really guilty, and he keeps trying to get off the case but his editor (Lee J. Cobb) keeps making him pursue it further. The later parts of the film are interesting in showing an image of investigative journalism, policing, and the justice system in the 1940s, decades before public consciousness would be changed by the revelations of Frank Serpico and incidents like the police torture of Abner Louima, the murder of Laquan McDonald, and the exposure of the Jon Burge torture machine.
6.5/10