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"Crusading publisher Austin Spenser wants to prove a point about the insufficiency of circumstantial evidence. Spencer talks his prospective son-in-law Tom Garrett into participating in a hoax, the better to expose the alleged ineptitude of conviction-happy DA. 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."
"Om de relativiteit van het rechtsapparaat aan te tonen, beschuldigt een journalist zichzelf van een misdaad. Na zijn veroordeling kan hij echter niet meer bewijzen dat hij onschuldig is."
"Andrews plays a writer who plans, with the cooperation of a newspaper publisher, to discredit the concept of capital punishment by deliberately implicating himself as a murderer only to prove how circumstantial evidence can lead to wrongful conviction. Lang's unrelenting fascination with characters as a function of his subject has never been more in evidence. He is not concerned so much with who is guilty, who is innocent but with the question: what is guilt and what is innocence?"@en
"Fiction. Drame. Spencer, un directeur de journal, demande à son futur gendre, Garrett, de jouer les faux coupables dans le but de mener une lutte contre la peine de mort. Les adversaires fabriquent des fausses preuves en vu de démontrer l'innocence du condamné. Le plan initial prend toutefois une tournure différente lorsque Spencer est tué dans un accident de voiture. Avec Dana Andrews, Joan Fontaine, Sidney Blackmer et Barbara Nichols."
"Story of a reporter, engaged to a newspaper proprietor's daughter who, coerced by his prospective father-in-law, poses as a murderer to prove the fallibility of circumstantial evidence, but fatally slips up."@en
"Guilty - beyond a reasonable doubt - such is the incontrovertible law which pardons the innocent and condemns the guilty. But just how fallible is the process of law? To what extent can deceit, prejudice and the cruel powers of fate intervene to set a murderer free, or send an innocent man to the electric chair ..."
""Adversaire acharné de la peine de mort, le rédacteur en chef Austin Spencer décide de "monter un coup" avec son journaliste Tom Garrett. Ils fabriquent des preuves accusant ce dernier d'un crime qui défraie la chronique, le but étant de dénoncer une erreur judiciaire qui aurait pu condamner à mort un innocent. Le jour du verdict, Austin Spencer chargé d'apporter les preuves de falsification, se tue dans un accident de voiture."--[allocine.fr]."
""A writer becomes obsessed with the idea of proving that is possible for a completely innocent man to be found guilty of murder. And when a pretty showgirl is found strangled in a ravine, and no killer can be found, the perfect opportunity presents itself.""
"Hoping to expose fatal flaws in the legal system, writer Tom Garret places a bet that he can have himself convicted of murder on purely circumtantial evidence by planting false clues at a crimes scene, before sensationally revealing his trick at the last time. However, a series of disastrous coincidences leaves him facing execution - and a frantic search for the true killer begins."