Pat O'Brien, Diana Lynn, John Hodiak, James Arness, Richard Anderson, Spencer Tracy, William Campbell. Title from disc label. Originally released as a motion picture in 1951. Based on a novel by Eleazar Lipsky.
Summary:
James Curtayne was once a brilliant defense attorney, saving scores from prison-time and death row. But that was before a part of him crawled inside a bottle and never crawled out. He now practices civil law. It's safer that way. But when John O'Hara, a kid from the neighborhood, gets hauled up on Murder One, he allows himself to get cajoled into returning to his former vocation. It's a mistake. The DA runs circles around the alcohol addled attorney and O'Hara now faces execution.
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