''The Accusing Finger'' is a 1936 American

drama film In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. The drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular ...

directed by James P. Hogan and written by Madeleine Ruthven, Brian Marlow, John Bright and Robert Tasker. The film stars Paul Kelly, Marsha Hunt, Kent Taylor,

Robert Cummings Charles Clarence Robert Orville Cummings (June 9, 1910 – December 2, 1990) was an American film and television actor who appeared in roles in comedy films such as ''The Devil and Miss Jones'' (1941) and ''Princess O'Rourke'' (1943), and in d ...

, Harry Carey, Bernadene Hayes and

Joe Sawyer Joe Sawyer (born Joseph Sauers; August 29, 1906 – April 21, 1982) was a Canadian film actor. He appeared in more than 200 films between 1927 and 1962, and was sometimes billed under his birth name. Early life Sawyer was born August 29, 1 ...

. The film was released on October 23, 1936, by

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Plot

An attorney is proud of sending many people to jail, some of whom were innocent. His wife is killed, and due to circumstantial evidence, he is sent to jail and finds himself with many of the people he prosecuted.

Cast

* Paul Kelly as Douglas Goodwin * Marsha Hunt as Claire Patterson * Kent Taylor as Jerry Welch *

as Jimmy Ellis * Harry Carey as Sen. Nash *Bernadene Hayes as Muriel Goodwin *

as Father Reed * DeWitt Jennings as Prison Warden *

Russell Hicks Edward Russell Hicks (June 4, 1895 – June 1, 1957) was an American film character actor. Hicks was born in 1895 in Baltimore, Maryland Maryland ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the Mid-Atlantic (United States), Mid-Atlantic region of the ...

as Sen. Forrest * Jonathan Hale as Special Prosecutor * Ellen Drew as Wife * Rollo Lloyd as Dr. Simms * Paul Fix as John 'Twitchy' Burke * Sam Flint as Dist. Atty. Benton * Ralf Harolde as 'Spud' *

Fred Kohler Fredrick Louis Kohler (April 20, 1888 – October 28, 1938) was an American actor. Career Fred Kohler was born in Kansas City, Missouri or in Dubuque, Iowa. As a teen, he began to pursue a career in vaudeville, but worked other jobs to suppor ...

as Johnson *Hilda Vaughn as Maid * George Chandler as Reporter

References

External links

* 1936 films 1930s English-language films American drama films 1936 drama films Paramount Pictures films American black-and-white films Films directed by James Patrick Hogan 1930s American films {{1930s-drama-film-stub