22% off (Sale price $15.59, Reg. Price $19.99) :: James Curtayne (Spencer Tracy) 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 lawâ¦itâs safer that way. But when John OâHara (James Arness), a kid from the neighborhood, gets hauled up on Murder One, he allows himself to get cajoled into returning to his former vocation. Itâs a mistake. The DA runs circles around the alcohol addled attorney, and OâHara now faces execution. Itâs Jimmyâs worst nightmare come true. The question is, whatâs he planning to do about it? A young John Sturges (The Magnificent Seven) teams up with seasoned cinema vet Tracy for this noir-tinged legal drama, and it proves a potent combo â a solid, by-the-numbers thriller rises above the machinations of plot to provide a compelling portrait of a very good, but very weak man in thrall to some very bad, very strong impulses.
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