We watched this film for the very first time last night and what a surprisingly good film it is. Of course with a young Henry Fonda in the lead part, we should have known. Fonda plays 'Brick' Tennant, a young man who is working as a taxi driver and saving hard to marry his sweetheart. Through a series of co-incidences and the lack of a hard alibi, he is suspected - and eventually found guilty of - robbery and murder. It's a classic 'wrong man' thriller, made all the better by the careful character introduction and set-up early on in the film. If the film has a message, it is that the death penalty is a dangerous thing, especially when careers and promotions are on the line. There's no slack in the film, and its short 68 minute running time whizzes by. A little gem of a film, and a story which Fonda would tell again in Hitchcock's 'The Wrong Man' of 1956, another cracker.
Review of Let Us Live
