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- DirectorJames TinlingStarsDon CastlePeggy KnudsenPatricia KnightA paroled convict who bears a striking resemblance to the local District Attorney is hired by the mob to impersonate him, while the real District Attorney is kidnapped and held captive at a secret location.
- DirectorVictor SavilleStarsRobert TaylorElizabeth TaylorRobert FlemyngIn Cold War London, young American Melinda Greyton marries British Army Major Michael Curragh, who is a Communist spy working for the Soviets.
- DirectorW. Lee WilderStarsAlbert DekkerCatherine CraigCharles DrakeBanker Kenneth Holden (Albert Dekker) steals funds from an estate and decides to marry the heiress, Claire Worthington (Catherine Craig), to safeguard his position. He arranges for her fiancé to be killed but does not state the fiancé's name. Claire, meanwhile, has a change of heart and marries Holden, so he now becomes the target of the killer and attempts to cancel the deal--except he doesn't know who the hired killer is.
- DirectorJean-Pierre MelvilleStarsHoward VernonNicole StéphaneJean-Marie RobainIn occupied France, an elderly man and his niece are forced to give shelter to a German army lieutenant who seemingly loves their country and culture.
- DirectorDouglas SirkStarsLinda DarnellGeorge SandersAnna LeeIn this filmed Chekhov adaptation, Olga is an alluring peasant woman who lures cynical aristocrat Fedor away from his milquetoast fiancée, with tragic consequences.
- DirectorLewis R. FosterStarsDan DuryeaDorothy LamourSterling HaydenThe secretary to a psychiatrist finds herself caught up in the murder of a patient's wife and realizes that her life is also in danger.
- DirectorVincente MinnelliStarsKatharine HepburnRobert TaylorRobert MitchumMiddle-aged bride Ann Hamilton soon begins to suspect that her charming husband is really a psychotic who plans to murder her.
- DirectorLawrence HuntingtonStarsJames MasonRosamund JohnPamela MasonA British brain surgeon punishes the murderess of his lover.
- DirectorMax OphülsStarsJames MasonBarbara Bel GeddesRobert RyanAn ambitious young LA department store model gets her wish of marrying a millionaire but she eventually discovers that rich life isn't always a happy one.
- DirectorVincente MinnelliStarsJennifer JonesJames MasonVan HeflinA provincial doctor's wife's romantic illusions about life and social status lead her to betray her naive husband, take on lovers, and run up ruinous debts.
- DirectorMax OphülsStarsJames MasonJoan BennettGeraldine BrooksAfter discovering the dead body of her teenage daughter's lover, a housewife takes desperate measures to protect her family from scandal.
- DirectorMervyn LeRoyStarsBarbara StanwyckJames MasonVan HeflinA vain businessman puts a strain on happy marriage to a rich, beautiful socialite by allowing himself to be seduced by a former girlfriend.
- DirectorHugo FregoneseStarsJames MasonMärta TorénDan DuryeaAfter stealing a gangster's money and his girlfriend, a doctor heads for a small village in Mexico.
- DirectorDouglas SirkStarsClaudette ColbertRobert CummingsDon AmecheChronic sleepwalker Alison Courtland thinks that a mysterious man wearing horned-rimmed eye glasses is out to kill her but her husband blames her tired imagination.
- DirectorJulien DuvivierStarsMerle OberonJoseph CottenEdna May OliverFour friends reminisce in old age. Each of the men had been in love with the main character, Lydia. The interweaving stories reveal the reason why she never married any of them and, indeed, never married at all.
- DirectorKing VidorOtto BrowerWilliam DieterleStarsJennifer JonesJoseph CottenGregory PeckBeautiful, biracial Pearl Chavez becomes the ward of her dead father's first love and finds herself torn between two brothers, one good and the other bad.
- DirectorJohn ReinhardtStarsCathy DownsPaul LangtonMischa AuerA young convict,Johnny Coulter, serving as a trustee and with only a year remaining on his sentence, is forced to participate in a prison break by one of the hardened criminals. They separate after the break but circumstances bring them together again. Johnny and a waitress, Hope Novak, fall in love and, together, they help the law recapture the escapee and his henchmen.
- DirectorRobert RossenStarsDick PowellEvelyn KeyesLee J. CobbA high-class crook gets in trouble with the law.
- DirectorRichard ThorpeStarsJoan CrawfordFred MacMurrayConrad VeidtOxford Professor Richard Myles and his new bride Frances are off on a European honeymoon. It isn't the typical honeymoon: they are on a spying mission for British Intelligence on the eve of World War II.
- DirectorArnold LavenStarsBroderick CrawfordRuth RomanMartha HyerAn FBI agent investigates the murder of his partner by taking over the 3 cases he was working on, determined to find his killer.
- DirectorRobert WiseStarsClaire TrevorLawrence TierneyWalter SlezakA calculating divorcée risks her chances at wealth and security with a man she doesn't love by getting involved with the hotheaded murderer romancing her foster sister.
- DirectorEdgar G. UlmerStarsTom NealAnn SavageClaudia DrakeThe life of Al Roberts, a pianist in a New York nightclub, turns into a nightmare when he decides to hitchhike to Los Angeles to visit his girlfriend.
- DirectorOrson WellesStarsRita HayworthOrson WellesEverett SloaneFascinated by gorgeous Mrs. Bannister, seaman Michael O'Hara joins a bizarre yachting cruise, and ends up mired in a complex murder plot.
- DirectorEdward DmytrykStarsDick PowellWalter SlezakMicheline CheirelCanadian flyer Laurence Gerard finds that his wife has been murdered by a French collaborator. His quest for justice leads him to Switzerland and Argentina.
- DirectorRobert SiodmakStarsVictor MatureRichard ConteFred ClarkPolice Lieut. Candella, longtime friend of the Rome family, walks a tightrope in the case of cop-killer Martin Rome.
- DirectorRobert SiodmakStarsBarbara StanwyckWendell CoreyPaul KellyAssistant district attorney Cleve Marshall falls for the mysterious Thelma Jordon when she seeks help solving robberies of her aunt's estate.
- DirectorSam NewfieldStarsHugh BeaumontAnn SavageRussell HicksWhen a reporter helps his girlfriend murder her rich husband, an innocent man gets the blame and faces execution.
- DirectorArthur LubinStarsBrian DonlevyElla RainesCharles CoburnA unfaithful wife plots with her lover to kill her husband, but the lover is accidentally killed instead. The husband stays in hiding and lets his wife be charged with conspiracy.
- DirectorJohn H. AuerStarsJohn CarrollVera RalstonRobert PaigeA woman falls for the victim of an intended blackmail plot.
- DirectorJean RenoirStarsJoan BennettRobert RyanCharles BickfordA Coast Guardsman suffering from Post-Traumatic Stress becomes involved with a beautiful and enigmatic seductress married to a blind painter.
- DirectorFritz LangStarsJoan BennettMichael RedgraveAnne RevereAfter a lovely woman and her new husband settle in an ancient mansion on the East coast, she discovers that he may want to kill her.
- DirectorSteve SekelyPaul HenreidStarsPaul HenreidJoan BennettEduard FranzPursued by the big-time gambler he robbed, John Muller assumes a new identity, with unfortunate results.
- DirectorTim WhelanStarsSonia DresdelBarbara WhiteWalter FitzgeraldA wife whose goal is power begins a game of manipulation that insidiously destroys her family.
- DirectorHenri-Georges ClouzotStarsLouis JouvetSimone RenantBernard BlierA flirtatious wife runs off to meet an older man and the husband closes in with intend to murder him, but finds the deed already done.
- DirectorGeorge BlairStarsAdele MaraMark RobertsLorna GrayA beautiful female private detective is hired by a wealthy businessman to check up on his stepson--the heir to the family fortune--who has been withdrawing large amounts of money from his bank account.
- DirectorEdmund GouldingStarsCharles BoyerJoan FontaineBrenda MarshallThe daughter (Joan Fontaine) of a musical mentor (Montagu Love) is hopelessly in love with her cousin's husband (Charles Boyer), a handsome composer.
- DirectorHenry HathawayStarsLucille BallClifton WebbWilliam BendixA secretary tries to help her boss who's been framed for murder.
- DirectorElmer CliftonIda LupinoStarsSally ForrestKeefe BrasselleLeo PennAfter a beautiful but unsophisticated girl is seduced by a worldly piano player and gives up her out-of-wedlock baby, her guilt compels her to kidnap another child.
- DirectorJohn BrahmStarsLaraine DayRobert MitchumBrian AherneJust before a wedding, the bridegroom hears a complex tale painting his lovely bride as devilish and unbalanced.
- DirectorWilliam WylerStarsBette DavisHerbert MarshallJames StephensonThe wife of a rubber plantation administrator shoots a man to death and claims it was self-defense, but a letter written in her own hand may prove her undoing.
- DirectorW.S. Van DykeStarsJeanette MacDonaldRobert YoungEthel WatersReporter Homer Smith accidentally draws Marcia Warren into his mission to stop Nazis from bombing Allied Convoys with robot-planes.
- DirectorW.S. Van DykeRobert B. SinclairRichard ThorpeStarsRobert MontgomeryIngrid BergmanGeorge SandersRobert Montgomery and George Sanders team-up to play against type in this probing psychological thriller that features Ingrid Bergman as the object of their obsessions.
- DirectorW.S. Van DykeHerbert KlineStarsRobert YoungLaraine DayFay BainterJohn Davis, a married American newspaper reporter in London, covers the story of a home for children displaced by the war and meets two kids who grow attached to him.
- DirectorHarold S. BucquetJack ConwayStarsKatharine HepburnWalter HustonAline MacMahonThe lives of a small Chinese village are turned upside down when the Japanese invade it, and a heroic young woman leads her fellow villagers in an uprising against these invaders.
- DirectorCy EndfieldStarsWilliam GarganMarjorie LordRalph ByrdAn investigative reporter tells his assistant about a book called "The Argyle Album", which contains a list of people who were traitors and war profiteers during World War II. After the reporter is murdered in the hospital, his assistant is framed for the killing and must elude the police and a gang of international criminals who are looking for the album to use for blackmail.
- DirectorCy EndfieldStarsLeon ErrolJoe Kirkwood Jr.Guy KibbeeIn the second film of Monogram's "Joe Palooka" series, Joe is 'used', by two state senators scheming to obtain oil-rich lands, in a publicity campaign to get the land transferred to the state, supposedly for a park. When Joe learns that he has been used as a dupe, he becomes disillusioned and leaves the prize-fighting profession, but his manager, sparring partners, and fiancée manage to expose the land-grab scheme, clear Joe's name, and discredit the crooked politicians.
- DirectorAlfred HitchcockStarsIngrid BergmanJoseph CottenMichael WildingA young gentleman goes to Australia where he reunites with his now married childhood sweetheart, only to find out she has become an alcoholic and harbors dark secrets.
- DirectorAlfred HitchcockStarsJames StewartJohn DallFarley GrangerTwo men try to convince themselves they've committed the perfect murder by hosting a dinner party after strangling a former classmate to death.
- DirectorAlfred HitchcockStarsGregory PeckAnn ToddCharles LaughtonA happily married London barrister falls in love with the accused poisoner he is defending.
- DirectorVincente MinnelliFred ZinnemannStarsJudy GarlandRobert WalkerJames GleasonIn 1945, during a 48-hour leave, a soldier accidentally meets a girl at Pennsylvania Station and spends his leave with her, eventually falling in love with the lovely New Yorker.
- DirectorRobert Z. LeonardVincente MinnelliStarsRobert TaylorAva GardnerCharles LaughtonFederal agent Rigby, in Central America to trace stolen plane engines, falls for the gorgeous wife of the chief suspect.
- DirectorRaoul WalshStarsIda LupinoHumphrey BogartAlan CurtisAfter being released from prison, notorious thief Roy Earle is hired by his old boss to help a group of inexperienced criminals plan and carry out the robbery of a California resort.
- DirectorRaoul WalshStarsJames CagneyVirginia MayoEdmond O'BrienA psychopathic criminal with a mother complex makes a daring break from prison and leads his old gang in a chemical plant payroll heist.
- DirectorRaoul WalshStarsEdward G. RobinsonMarlene DietrichGeorge RaftTwo friends, who are members of a road crew employed by a Los Angeles power company, battle the elements to restore electrical power, and trade punches over the same woman.
- DirectorCharles ChaplinStarsCharles ChaplinPaulette GoddardJack OakieDictator Adenoid Hynkel tries to expand his empire while a poor Jewish barber tries to avoid persecution from Hynkel's regime.
- DirectorDelmer DavesStarsEdward G. RobinsonLon McCallisterJudith AndersonAn old man and his sister are concealing a terrible secret from their adopted teen daughter, concerning a hidden abandoned farmhouse, located deep in the woods.
- DirectorGeorge StevensStarsCary GrantIrene DunneBeulah BondiA couple's big dreams give way to a life full of unexpected sadness and unexpected joy.
- DirectorFelix E. FeistStarsMichael O'SheaVirginia GreyCharles McGrawVicious hood 'Red' Kluger escapes from Folsom State Prison and follows through on his threats to the detective who arrested him and the D.A. who convicted him.
- DirectorOtto BrowerStarsCarole LandisWilliam GarganRichard CranePolice lieutenant Sam Carson investigates a political murder after the victim is dumped at the door of police headquarters.
- DirectorDouglas SirkStarsCornel WildePatricia KnightJohn BaragreyA parole officer falls in love with his client, a ravishing blonde who served time for murder, and he's determined to help her go straight despite her interfering criminal boyfriend.
- DirectorGordon DouglasStarsLouis HaywardDennis O'KeefeLouise AllbrittonDuring the Cold War, at a California atomic research plant, an FBI agent and a Scotland Yard inspector join forces to eliminate a foreign atomic spy ring operating in the USA and the UK.
- DirectorRobert StevensonStarsHedy LamarrDennis O'KeefeJohn LoderA beautiful editor at a fashion magazine has a breakdown due to the pressures of her work and her disappointing love life. A psychiatrist recommends that she start life fresh by moving into a smaller apartment and under another name.
- DirectorFrank BorzageStarsDane ClarkGail RussellEthel BarrymoreDanny is despised by his schoolmates because his father was accused of killing another man and sentenced to death.
- DirectorRobert SiodmakStarsOlivia de HavillandLew AyresThomas MitchellA man is found murdered, and witnesses are sure about the woman they saw leaving his apartment. However, it becomes apparent that the woman has a twin, and finding out which one is the killer seems impossible.
- DirectorWill PriceStarsMartha ScottJeffrey LynnHarry MorganIn order to cash-in a life insurance policy, a failing business owner asks one of his employees, who has financial woes of his own, to aid him in disguising his suicide into a robbery-murder.
- DirectorGeorge SidneyStarsWalter PidgeonEthel BarrymorePeter LawfordShortly after the end of World War II, British Colonel Michael S. "Hooky" Nicobar (Walter Pidgeon) is assigned to a unit in the British Zone of Vienna. His duty is to aid the Soviet authorities to repatriate citizens of the Soviet Union, many of whom prefer not to return to their home country. Billeted in the convent run by Mother Auxilia (Ethel Barrymore), Nicobar, and his military aides Major John "Twingo" McPhimister (Peter Lawford) and Audrey Quail (Dame Angela Lansbury), become involved in the plight of young ballerina Olga Alexandrova (Janet Leigh), who is trying to avoid being returned to Moscow. Nicobar's sense of duty is tested as he sees first hand the plight of the people he is helping return to the Soviet Union; his lack of religious faith is also shaken by his contact with the Mother Superior.
- DirectorRobert FloreyStarsJohn PayneSonny TuftsEllen DrewWar hero recovers from amnesia and is confronted by his criminal past.
- DirectorBernard VorhausStarsCathy O'DonnellJune LockhartHugh BeaumontBarbara Carlin attends her own funeral and returns home suspecting that her husband, Rod Carlin, had tried to do away with her, and is also (rightfully) curious as to just who was the woman buried under her name. She learns that the victim was glamor girl Helen Lawrence, with whom her husband had been having an affair. Complications come from her sister Rusty, who, it turns out, is not her real sister and also doesn't like her a whole lot, and from a dim-witted prize fighter, George Mandley. The family attorney, Michael Dunn, stands around and provides little in the way of help or reason for being there, until...
- DirectorRichard OswaldStarsAlbert BassermannMary BrianEric BloreIn Prussia shoemaker Voigt needs a residence permit to get a job, but can only get a job if he already has a permit. He dons a captain's uniform to order a platoon of soldiers to Koepenick to take over the Town Hall to get his permit.
- DirectorRaoul WalshStarsGeorge RaftHumphrey BogartAnn SheridanWhen one of two truck-driving brothers loses an arm, they both join a transport company where the other is falsely charged as an accessory in the murder of the owner.
- DirectorGene RaymondStarsGene RaymondOsa MassenFrancis Lederer2 people - a middle-aged stockbroker and a young widow are passengers on the same flight from California to Hawaii. For different reasons, they've both fled the state with secrets. Neither knows of the others' situation and they both turn to each other for help.
- DirectorZoltan KordaStarsHumphrey BogartBruce BennettJ. Carrol NaishAfter the fall of Tobruk in 1942, during the Allied retreat in the Libyan desert, an American tank picks-up a motley group of survivors but they face advancing Germans and a lack of water.
- DirectorArch ObolerStarsEdmund GwennPhyllis ThaxterHenry H. Daniels Jr.A young woman has two distinct personalities, one of whom is evil and constantly gets her in trouble.
- DirectorBilly WilderStarsFred MacMurrayBarbara StanwyckEdward G. RobinsonA Los Angeles insurance representative lets an alluring housewife seduce him into a scheme of insurance fraud and murder that arouses the suspicion of his colleague, an insurance investigator.
- DirectorTay GarnettStarsLana TurnerJohn GarfieldCecil KellawayA married woman and a drifter fall in love and then plot to murder her husband.
- DirectorJohn BrahmStarsJames EllisonHeather AngelJohn HowardSurviving members of an aristocratic English family are threatened by a legendary monster when they venture out on chilly, foggy nights.
- DirectorJohn Paddy CarstairsStarsRichard AttenboroughBarry K. BarnesSheila SimA London cab driver gets mixed up with a criminal gang and sets out to expose the group and its leader for what they are.
- DirectorCrane WilburStarsScott BradyJeff CoreyWhit BissellTwelve inmates plan a prison break from the Colorado State Penitentiary but one of them reluctantly joins the group.
- DirectorAlberto CavalcantiStarsSally GrayTrevor HowardGriffith JonesAfter WW2, former RAF airman Clem Morgan joins a gang of black-market smugglers-thieves but when a robbery goes wrong, Clem is caught , framed for a policeman's murder, and is sent to prison where he plots his escape and revenge.
- DirectorRichard WallaceStarsGlenn FordJanis CarterBarry SullivanMike Lambert, seeking a mining job, instead becomes the patsy for a femme-fatale's schemes.
- DirectorAnthony MannStarsDennis O'KeefeClaire TrevorMarsha HuntJoe Sullivan (Dennis O'Keefe) has taken the rap for Rick (Raymond Burr), who double-crosses him with a flawed escape plan and other means intended to get rid of him.
- DirectorAnthony MannStarsTom ConwayAnn RutherfordRichard LaneA confused man with a gash on his head stumbles into the taxi cab of Patty Mitchell. He says that he can't recall his own name, any facts about his life or even what he was doing before he got in the cab.
- DirectorChester ErskineStarsWilliam PowellShelley WintersMarsha HuntDuring a conference-trip to L.A., an academic runs into an old-flame and into trouble with the police when she disappears, presumed murdered.
- DirectorAnatole LitvakStarsJohn GarfieldAnn SheridanPat O'BrienAn arrogant mobster, sentenced to a long prison term in Sing Sing, becomes a changed man when given a chance by the fair and progressive warden.
- DirectorGordon DouglasHenry LevinStarsGlenn FordEvelyn KeyesJohn IrelandWhen he learns that a gangster has taken over his nightclub and murdered his partner, returning WW2 hero Joe Miracle steals the money from the club's safe and hides in a settlement home, while the mob is on his tail.
- DirectorCurtis BernhardtStarsAnn SheridanRonald ReaganRichard WhorfDanny and Steve are migrant farm workers who wind up in Cat Tail, Florida. Cat Tail is run by Madden Packing and Danny works for Madden while Steve works for the underdog farmer named Nick. After the Tomato crop is destroyed by Madden, Steve takes Nick, Lola and the next crop to Atlanta where they sell it for big money. Danny is going up with Madden and thinks Steve is a sucker for working in the dirt. Lola stays in Atlanta while Nick and Steve go back to Cat Tail and the real trouble begins.
- DirectorJean NegulescoStarsIda LupinoCornel WildeCeleste HolmA night club owner becomes infatuated with a torch singer and frames his best friend/manager for embezzlement when the chanteuse falls in love with him.
- DirectorJoseph L. MankiewiczStarsJohn HodiakNancy GuildLloyd NolanGeorge Taylor returns from WWII with amnesia. Back home in Los Angeles, while trying to track down his old identity, he stumbles onto a 3-year old murder case and a hunt for a missing $2 million.
- DirectorRay NazarroStarsCharles StarrettAdele RobertsWalt ShrumMary Ann Jarvis' father and uncle and an army paymaster are murdered by mysterious conspirators in order to gain control of her ranch but good guy Steve Gordon is falsely accused of the crimes.
- DirectorGeorge ShermanStarsJohn PayneJoan CaulfieldDan DuryeaA con man sets out to swindle a widow out of the money she's received to build a memorial to her war-hero husband, but winds up falling in love with her instead.
- DirectorRichard FleischerStarsLloyd BridgesBarbara PaytonJohn HoytSecret Service agents make a deal with a counterfeiting inmate to be released on early parole if he will help them recover some bogus moneymaking plates, but he plans to double cross them.
- DirectorHarry KellerStarsRobert RockwellDorothy PatrickGerald MohrNewly arrived in a Western city, Kansan Gloria Dell waits at the train station to meet Larry Goodrich, the fiance' she has corresponded with, but never met. When he doesn't arrive, Mrs. Henley from the Women's Welfare League advises her to look for him at the address he has given her. Gloria walks to the nearby address, only to find a bar where the bartender says an employee, Larry Richards, was arrested earlier that day for bigamy. Gloria decides to follow the bartender's advice and sell her engagement ring to pay for a ticket home. She goes to a jeweler named Charles Winters, who offers her $1,000 for the ring, much more than it is worth. After Gloria leaves with the money, Winters quickly burns the sales receipt, ransacks the shop and phones the police to report that his shop has been robbed. When Gloria returns to the train station, an investigator is waiting to arrest her. At the police station, Gloria is placed in jail after they find the money Winters had given her for the ring. A short time later, Winters pays off a three-hundred dollar debt to mob boss Joe Sapelli, stating that he received the money as payment from his insurance company for the robbery. Joe suspects that Winters has framed Gloria, so he decides to post her $10,000 bail. Before she is discharged, District Attorney James Deveron insists she help him break up Joe's syndicate, threatening to tell her family about the charges if she refuses. Deveron gives her the money that Joe has left for her, but when she meets Joe for dinner that evening, she returns it and asks him for a job instead. Later, when the vice squad raids Joe's bookmaking operation, some of his men are arrested, but Joe, who had been forewarned by the corrupt Lt. Metzger and Capt. E. V. Roberts. Later, Joe takes Gloria to his restaurant, where they meet Metzger and Roberts. That evening, Joe takes Gloria to his mother's house, where he shows her the record book that Deveron says he needs for a conviction. Joe shows her the page noting that Winters' debt has been paid, saying that it proves her innocence. That evening, Joe takes Gloria for a flight aboard his private plane, and during the trip, he proposes, promising to retire from his life of crime if she accepts. Stunned, Gloria asks for a few days to think it over, but agrees to wear his ring in the meantime. She goes to Deveron and says she will no longer help him, but Metzger and Roberts have already delivered the stolen record book to Deveron. When Joe realizes his book is gone, Gloria confesses her involvement with Deveron. Although she explains she did not take the book, Joe hits her in the face and leaves. Moments later, Gloria overhears Metzger ordering his men to kill Joe and grabs a gun, asking Joe's mother to hold it while she goes to the airport to warn Joe. Deveron, who has learned of Metzger's and Roberts' involvement with Joe, follows them to the airport and is fired upon when he tries to arrest them. Gloria arrives just as Joe and his henchman Benny take off, but their plane crashes due to lack of fuel. Gloria pleads with Joe, saying she will wait for him, but he arranges for her to return to Kansas. As Gloria boards the train, Joe says goodbye, but when she returns his ring, Joe is convinced of her love and asks her to stay.
- DirectorWilliam WylerStarsOlivia de HavillandMontgomery CliftRalph RichardsonA naive young woman falls for a handsome young man her emotionally abusive father suspects is only a fortune hunter.
- DirectorClarence BrownStarsDavid BrianClaude Jarman Jr.Juano HernandezIn 1940s Mississippi, two teenage boys and an elderly woman combine forces to prevent a miscarriage of justice and clear a black man of a murder charge.