The Alfred Hitchcock Hour

  
 

Starring The Defense

  
     
 
 
     
 

 
     
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Genre: Thriller

Erstausstrahlung: 15.11.63 (Staffel 2, Folge 7)

Filmlänge: 50 Min. 13 Sek.

Drehbuch: Henry Slesar

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Kamera: John F. Warren

Regie: Joseph Pevney

Produzent: Joan Harrison, Gordon Hessler (Associate Producer)

Darsteller: Richard Basehart (Miles Crawford), Russell Collins (Sam Brody), S. John Launer (Ed Rutherford), Teno Pollick (Tod Crawford), Diane Mountford (Ruthie), Jean Hale (Babs Riordan), Christopher Connelly (Rudy Trask), John Zaremba (The Judge), Rockne Tarkington (The Police Officer), Vince Williams (The Court Bailiff), Selmer Jackson (The Movie Chaplain), Nolan Leary (The Movie Judge), Charles E. Fredericks (The Movie Warden), Buster West (The Movie Foreman), Will Allen (The Movie Boy), Barney Phillips (Hanley), Alfred Hitchcock (Moderator).

Inhaltsangabe: Miles Crawford is a former actor turned lawyer. He gets an oppotunity to practive both professions when his son Tod is arrested an put on trial for murder. Tod is guilty but Miles makes an impassioned summation that manages to swat both the judge and the jury. Unfortunately, the prosecutor is a movie fan and he points out that Miles's summation was lifted word for word from a old movie in which Crawford played a defense attorney in charge of a case very similar to the one he is in charge of now.

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