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A southern town is rocked by scandal when teenager Mary Clay is murdered on Confederate Decoration Day. Andrew Griffin, a small-time lawyer with political ambitions, sees the crime as his ticket to the Senate if he can find the right victim to finger for the crime. He sets out to convict Robert Hale, a transplanted northerner who was Mary's teacher at the business school where she was killed. Despite the fact that all the evidence against Hale is circumstantial, Griffin works with a ruthless reporter to create a media frenzy of prejudice and hate against the teacher.
general audience, movie lovers
teacher, prejudice, media frenzy, northerner, business school
United States of America
asDistrict Attorney Andrew J. Griffin
asSybil Hale
asProfessor Robert Perry Hale
asMichael Gleason
asBill Brock
asMary Clay
asImogene Mayfield
asJoe Turner
asDetective Laneart
asTump Redwine
asCarlisle P. Buxton
asMrs. Hale (as Elizabeth Risdon)
asJim Timberlake
asDetective Pindar
asMrs. Mountford
asGovernor Mountford
asHarmon
asMrs. Clay (as Sybil Harris)
asShattuck Clay
asLuther Clay
asRansom Clay
asDrugstore Clerk
asReporter
asJudge Moore
asConfederate Soldier
asMob Leader Outside Governor's Mansion (uncredited)
asDougherty - Publisher (uncredited)
asCop Guarding Hale (uncredited)
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