The Accusing Finger
The Accusing Finger
Release: 1936-11-17
·Runtime: 61m
·★ 4.7
Crime
Romance
Drama
Thriller
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.
Production Countries
United States of America
Production Companies
Paramount Pictures
Cast
Marsha Hunt
as Claire Patterson
Harry Carey
as Sen. Nash
Bernadene Hayes
as Muriel Goodwin
Kenneth Harlan
as Police Surgeon
Frank Marlowe
as Convict
Torben Meyer
as Proprietor
Rolfe Sedan
as First Waiter
Paul Fix
as "Twitchy" Burke, the killer thief
Thomas E. Jackson
as Lead Investigator Logan
Fred Kohler
as Curly-haired Convict
John Carroll
as Dominic Petrelli, convict
Marten Lamont
as Convict
Jack Perrin
as Guard
Irene Bennett
Mae Busch
as Younger Woman on Bus
Ronald R. Rondell
as Restaurant Patron
Milburn Stone
as Convict
Harry Tyler
as Man on Bus
Rollo Lloyd
as Dr. Simms
Fay Holden
as Twitchy's Landlady
Edwin Stanley
as Fingerprint Expert
Walter Long
as Convict
Paul Newlan
as Prisoner
Lee Phelps
as Riley
Jonathan Hale
as Special Prosecutor
Robert Cummings
as Jimmy Ellis
Sammee Tong
as Chinese-American Convict
Harry C. Bradley
as Senator
Ralph Lewis
as Senator
Dennis O'Keefe
as Reporter
Larry Steers
as Senator
Arthur Loft
as Convict
Frank Mayo
as Copy Desk Editor
Hooper Atchley
as Senator
Ethel Clayton
George Irving
as Judge's Voice
Kent Taylor
as Jerry Welch
Joe Sawyer
as Father Regan, chaplain
James P. Burtis
as Waiter
Eddie Dunn
as Sergeant at Arms
Harry Hayden
as Clerical Employee
Ben Hendricks Jr.
as Convict
Frank O'Connor
as Deputy
Phillips Smalley
as Senator
Matty Fain
as Condemned Man
Arthur Stuart Hull
as Senator
Kitty McHugh
as (scene deleted)
Robert McKenzie
as Dialogue Restaurant Patron
Paul Kelly
as Douglas Goodwin
Sam Flint
as District Attorney Benton
Al Hill
as Reporter
Frank McLure
as Restaurant Patron
Charles R. Moore
as Black Prisoner
William Worthington
as Senator
Ward Bond
as Recreation Room Guard
James C. Morton
as (scene deleted)
Churchill Ross
as Ballistic Expert
William Hopper
as Reporter
J.P. McGowan
as Inner Guard
Ivan Miller
as Chairman of the Senate
DeWitt Jennings
as Prison Warden
Ralf Harolde
as Lean, Angry Convict
William Bailey
as Reporter in Senate Chamber
Edward Hearn
as Bailiff
Philo McCullough
as Reporter in Senate Chamber
Walter McGrail
as Guard
Louis Mason
as Higgins
Russell Hicks
as Vociferous Pro-Capital Punishment Senator
Ellen Drew
as Wife
George Chandler
as Reporter
Jimmy Conlin
as (scene deleted)
Selmer Jackson
as Medical Examiner
Priscilla Lawson
as Hat Check Girl
Nick Lukats
as Reporter
Hilda Vaughn
as Muriel's Maid