Beyond a Reasonable Doubt
Working with his fiancee's father, a newspaper publisher, a novelist frames himself for murder, intending to produce exonerating evidence at the last moment. But the publisher suddenly dies, the evidence is lost...
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DVD-R Details
- Run Time: 1 hours, 20 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
- Released: May 13, 2011
- Originally Released: 1956
- Label: Warner Archive Collection (MOD)
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Dana Andrews & Joan Fontaine | |
Performer: | Sidney Blackmer, Philip Bourneuf, Shepperd Strudwick, Barbara Nichols, Arthur Franz, Edward Binns, Robin Raymond, Dan Seymour, Joyce Taylor & Carleton Young | |
Directed by | Fritz Lang | |
Edited by | Gene Fowler, Jr. | |
Screenplay by | Douglas Morrow | |
Composition by | Herschel Burke Gilbert | |
Art Direction by | Carroll Clark | |
Produced by | Bert Friedlob | |
Director of Photography: | William E. Snyder |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 2/4 --
Beyond a Reasonable Doubt is a ludicrous story, very hard to swallow. Lang, who should have known better, must have directed this with his good eye closed.
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TV Guide
Rating: 4/5 --
While perhaps overdependent on coincidence and contrivance, this deft thriller guards its secret right to the end and proved a fitting swan song to Fritz Lang's Hollywood career.
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Radio Times
one of the best plot twists of all time.
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Out of the Past
Rating: 3/4 --
Says a prosecutor, during the trial: 'Beneath his intellectual and cultured exterior, he was moved by brutal impulses.' Is this also Lang's self-indictment? Or an indictment of any artist who trucks in sexual titillation and murder-as-entertainment?
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Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)
Rating: 4/5 --
Fritz Lang's last American movie is an edgy study in moral ambiguity.
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Total Film
While the purpose may be exemplary, the method the gentlemen employ is highly dubious as a practical exposition. And once it is revealed to prove their point, it should certainly put them in a pickle for conspiring to subvert justice and fool the courts.
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New York Times
Douglas Morrow's screenplay for BEYOND A REASONABLE DOUBT is indeed on the tricksy side, with carpets being pulled from beneath carpets before the final sleight in the very last seconds of the film.
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Description by OLDIES.com:
After director Fritz Lang vaulted to prominence with such masterpieces of German cinema as Metropolis and M, he brought his art to Hollywood films, including Fury, Ministry of Fear, The Woman in the Window and more trenchant tales of innocents caught in a web of seeming guilt. His last U.S. movie is this intriguing film noir about a novelist (Dana Andrews) out to expose the injustices of capital punishment. Working with his fianc?e's (Joan Fontaine) father, a newspaper publisher (Sidney Blackmer), he frames himself for murder, intending to produce exonerating evidence at the last moment. But the publisher suddenly dies, the evidence is lost...and that's only the first twist in a brilliantly layered plot ideally suited to Lang's talents.
Product Description:
Crusading publisher Austin Spenser (Sidney Blackmer) wants to prove a point about the insufficiency of circumstantial evidence. Spencer talks his prospective son-in-law Tom Garrett (Dana Andrews) into participating in a hoax, the better to expose the alleged ineptitude of conviction-happy DA (Philip Bourneuf). Tom will plant clues indicating that he is the murderer of a nightclub dancer, then stand trial for murder; just as the jury reaches its inevitable guilty verdict, Spencer will step forth to reveal the set-up and humiliate the DA. Somewhat surprisingly, Tom eagerly agrees to this subterfuge. Unfortunately, an unforeseen event renders their perfectly formed scheme useless. BEYOND A REASONABLE DOUBT was the last American film of director Fritz Lang.
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a must have movie from a master director
Movie Lover: gerard corbin from
SARCELLES, VAL-D'OISE FR -- April, 4, 2013
from a simple thriller Fritz lang makes up a real philosophical tale about what is real and fake.
But in the end manhood is always guillty
the casting is, as usual, very good.
This is a short movie which tells you more than any other so called "suspense" film
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