Let Us Live (1939)

Directed by

John Brahm

Genre

crime film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 08m

Rated

NR

Rating

6.8 of 10 from 13 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Two taxi drivers are wrongly identified as killers in a robbery murder. They face a trial that seems to end in conviction, until the real criminals confess.

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What happens

Let Us Live is a 1939 American crime film directed by John Brahm starring Maureen O'Sullivan, Henry Fonda and Ralph Bellamy. The script of the film was adapted from the 1936 Harper's Magazine story "Murder in Massachusetts" by Joseph F. Dinneen about a real criminal case. In 1934 two Boston taxi drivers were identified by several witnesses as the culprits who murdered a man during a theater robbery in Lynn, Massachusetts. Their trial was in progress for two weeks and it seemed likely that the two were going to be found guilty when the real killers were arrested for another crime and then admitted to the Lynn robbery-murder. Columbia Pictures had planned a much bigger production, but after political pressure from the state of Massachusetts the film's budget and publicity were scaled down considerably, and it was ultimately released as a B movie. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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