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Circumstantial Evidence (1945 film)
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Wikipedia article
'Circumstantial Evidence' is a 1945 American film noir directed by John Larkin and starring Michael O'Shea, Lloyd Nolan, and Trudy Marshall..
Plot
Three witnesses swear they saw Joe Reynolds murder grumpy baker Kenny (Ben Welden) with a hatchet. Joe claims Kenny's fatal head wound was the result of a fall as they arguedthe baker hit his head on an oven as he fellbut the eyewitness testimony prevails and Joe is sentenced to death in the electric chair. His buddy Sam Lord has an uphill struggle to prove his innocence.
Cast
* Michael O'Shea as Joe Reynolds
* Lloyd Nolan as Sam Lord
* Trudy Marshall as Agnes Hannon
* Billy Cummings as Pat Reynolds
* Ruth Ford as Mrs. Simms
* Reed Hadley as Prosecutor
* Roy Roberts as Marty Hannon
* Scotty Beckett as Freddy Hanlon
;Uncredited (in order of appearance)
Critical reception
Bosley Crowther, the film critic for 'The New York Times' panned the film, writing, "Darryl Zanuck must have had his back turned when 'Circumstantial Evidence' slipped out the front gate of the Twentieth Century-Fox Studio. For a sillier and more tediously worked-out piece of crime melodrama than the picture which opened yesterday at the Rialto hasn't reached Broadway in a long, long time. 'Circumstantial Evidence' is so full of hackneyed and incredible plot turns that one can never get even slightly interested in the involved set of circumstances which almost send a quite innocent, if belligerent, Michael O'Shea to the electric chair."[https://movies.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9A0DE1DA173BEE3BBC4951DFB266838E659EDE Crowther, Bosley]. 'The New York Times,' film review, April 21, 1945. Last accessed: February 11, 2010.
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