The Accusing Finger
Crime
Romance
Drama
Thriller
Condemned to share the fate of man he'd doomed!
A 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.
1936-11-17
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Cast
Director
James P. Hogan
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
Hilda Vaughn as Muriel's Maid
Thomas E. Jackson as Lead Investigator Logan
DeWitt Jennings as Prison Warden
Fred Kohler as Curly-haired Convict
Ralf Harolde as Lean, Angry Convict
Joe Sawyer as Father Regan, chaplain
Paul Fix as "Twitchy" Burke, the killer thief
Jonathan Hale as Special Prosecutor
Sam Flint as District Attorney Benton
John Carroll as Dominic Petrelli, convict
Sammee Tong as Chinese-American Convict
Russell Hicks as Vociferous Pro-Capital Punishment Senator
Rollo Lloyd as Dr. Simms
Hooper Atchley as Senator
William Bailey as Reporter in Senate Chamber
William Hopper as Reporter
Irene Bennett
Ellen Drew as Wife
Ward Bond as Recreation Room Guard
Harry C. Bradley as Senator
James P. Burtis as Waiter
Mae Busch as Younger Woman on Bus
George Chandler as Reporter
Ethel Clayton
Jimmy Conlin as (scene deleted)
Eddie Dunn as Sergeant at Arms
Matty Fain as Condemned Man
Kenneth Harlan as Police Surgeon
Harry Hayden as Clerical Employee
Edward Hearn as Bailiff
Ben Hendricks Jr. as Convict
Al Hill as Reporter
Fay Holden as Twitchy's Landlady
Arthur Stuart Hull as Senator
George Irving as Judge's Voice
Selmer Jackson as Medical Examiner
Marten Lamont as Convict
Priscilla Lawson as Hat Check Girl
Ralph Lewis as Senator
Arthur Loft as Convict
Walter Long as Convict
Nick Lukats as Reporter
Frank Marlowe as Convict
Louis Mason as Higgins
Frank Mayo as Copy Desk Editor
Philo McCullough as Reporter in Senate Chamber
J.P. McGowan as Inner Guard
Walter McGrail as Guard
Kitty McHugh as (scene deleted)
Robert McKenzie as Dialogue Restaurant Patron
Frank McLure as Restaurant Patron
Torben Meyer as Proprietor
Ivan Miller as Chairman of the Senate
Charles R. Moore as Black Prisoner
James C. Morton as (scene deleted)
Paul Newlan as Prisoner
Frank O'Connor as Deputy
Dennis O'Keefe as Reporter
Jack Perrin as Guard
Lee Phelps as Riley
Ronald R. Rondell as Restaurant Patron
Churchill Ross as Ballistic Expert
Rolfe Sedan as First Waiter
Phillips Smalley as Senator
Edwin Stanley as Fingerprint Expert
Larry Steers as Senator
Milburn Stone as Convict
Harry Tyler as Man on Bus
William Worthington as Senator