Beyond a Reasonable Doubt1956
Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (1956)
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Cast
as Tom Garrett
as Susan Spencer
as Austin Spencer
as Roy Thompson
as Bob Hale
as Jonathan Wilson
as Lt. Kennedy
as Terry Larue
as Dolly Moore
as Charlie Miller
as Greco
as Judge
as Joan Williams
as Allan Kirk
as Hat Check Girl
as Clerk
as Governor
as Announcer
as Blonde
as Customer
as Waiter
as Taxi Driver;Photographer
as Higgens
as Foreman of Jury
as Secretary
as Clergyman
as Warden
as Doctor
as Reporter
as Reporter
as Photographer
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It is a film of great economy and precision (it lasts only 80 minutes), with the terrifying inevitability of Greek tragedy and a pervading sense that man is his own worst enemy.
What this tense thriller lacks in action is more than made for by unpredictable twists in the plot, as well as an eerie atmosphere created by the gothic looking buildings and black and white film.
Fritz Lang's direction does what it can to inject suspense and interest but the melodrama never really jells.
Once he's raised the standard social issues, Lang destroys them all with a shatteringly nihilistic conclusion.
Lang's most austere film, reducing the characters to pawns arbitrarily shifted in demonstration of a fascinating theorem.
While the purpose may be exemplary, the method the gentlemen employ is highly dubious as a practical exposition. And once it is revealed to prove their point, it should certainly put them in a pickle for conspiring to subvert justice and fool the courts.
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Very clever film.
Super Reviewer
Beyond a Reasonable Doubt doesn't add up to much more than proof that Fritz Lang's best years were definitely behind him. The premise of an author setting himself up to be framed for murder to prove the fallibility of circumstantial evidence begs for something to go wrong when the only person who can prove his innocence gets killed. Lang set up the plan well enough and the whole period before the too-little-too-late twist at the end kind of dragged, but overall Beyond a Reasonable Doubt was just generally dull. Dana Andrews was just kind of there and watching Joan Fontaine in this movie was like watching off-white paint dry in a Midwestern state. If you're a hardcore Lang fan you may be able to appreciate this movie on some levels but its mostly just a big dull pile of whatever.
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