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