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