Beyond a Reasonable Doubt

About Beyond a Reasonable Doubt

A newspaper publisher, wanting to prove a point about the insufficiency of circumstantial evidence, talks his possible son-in-law Tom into a hoax in an attempt to expose ineptitude of the city's hard-line district attorney. The plan is to have Tom plant clues leading to his arrest for killing a female nightclub dancer.

Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (1956) is a crime film directed by Fritz Lang. The film is filed under film noir, capital punishment, and incriminate.

Dana Andrews appears as Tom Garrett, Joan Fontaine as Susan Spencer, Sidney Blackmer as Austin Spencer, and Arthur Franz as Bob Hale. At 80 minutes long, it arrived in September 1956.

The screenplay is by Douglas Morrow. American members can watch it on fuboTV.

TMDB voters put it at 6.8 out of 10 across 131 votes and it carries a NR rating.