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Director:
Jack Fisk
Writers (WGA):
Adela Rogers St. Johns (novel)
Lawrence Roman (teleplay)
Release Date:
9 September 1991 (USA) more
Genre:
Drama more
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Awards:
2 nominations more
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Cast

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Treat Williams ... Earl Rogers

Olivia Burnette ... Nora Rogers

Glenn Ford ... Rev. Rogers

Ashley Crow ... Belle Rogers
Barton Heyman ... Bill Jory

Raphael Sbarge ... Al Boyd
Lance Kerwin ... Harry Johnson
Fionnula Flanagan ... Pearl Morton
Amy Wright ... Queenie
Dana Hill ... Francy
Tony Frank ... C.C. McComas
Matthew Posey ... Mootry
Rick Stokes ... Doyle Bains
Bill Bolender ... Jim Davin
Robert Strane ... Boyd Sr.
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Runtime:
Spain:90 min | USA:93 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
1.33 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono
Certification:
Iceland:L | Australia:PG | Finland:S | USA:Not Rated

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2 out of 4 people found the following comment useful.
Great attorney - bad movie, 2 August 2003
Author: lurch-17 from hawaii

With real material abundant on the great Earl Rogers, this ridiculous melodrama based on his daughter's book of the same title is not worth watching. Glenn Ford stood out as the only professional who rose above the lack of script and direction to deliver a believable performance.

It's a good thing that this was released (just 3 years) after Adela Rogers' (author) death so that she never had to see it.

A truly epic film could be made about this legal defense legend, who in his only role as prosecutor in the LA Times bombing, defeated the bomber's defense attorney Clarence Darrow, then defended Darrow against jury tampering charges and got him acquitted.

Adela's book 'Final Verdict' (1962), and 'Take the Witness' (1932), both outline Earl Rogers as a groundbreaking attorney who introduced modern forensics, ballistics, alcohol defense, and other modern concepts into American courts with a flair never before seen. Roger's precedent of allowing the defendant (Darrow) to summarize his own defense to the jury was cited in the Simpson trial in the 1990's.

His life would make an excellent TV miniseries centered around his most famous and groundbreaking cases - without the needless melodrama.

Someone please make it.

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