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5.8A proud, pro-capital punishment district attorney with a 90% execution rate, finds himself wrongly convicted of murdering his estranged wife and sentenced to die. The woman he loves and his investigator rival for her affections rally to find the real killer, while he is confronted by the misery of life on death row.
Released: 1936-11-1761 minDir: James P. HoganCrime, Romance, Drama, Thriller
Cast
- Paul Kelly as Douglas Goodwin
- Marsha Hunt as Claire Patterson
- Kent Taylor as Jerry Welch
- Robert Cummings as Jimmy Ellis
- Harry Carey as Sen. Nash
- Bernadene Hayes as Muriel Goodwin
Themes
- prison
- love triangle
- gun
- death row
- prison warden
- murder
- social commentary
- secretary
- electric chair
- capital punishment
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Ratings
IMDb
6.5/10
80 votes
- Year
- 1936
- Runtime
- 61 min
- Genres
- Action, Crime, Drama
- Rated
- Approved
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Genre
- drama film
- Country of origin
- United States
- Original language
- English language
- Director
- James P. Hogan
- Cast member
- Frederick Burton
- Duration
- 60
- FilmAffinity ID
- 130529
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- publication date
- 1936-01-01
- title
- The Accusing Finger
- color
- black-and-white
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