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The Court of Last Resort (1957)

The Court of Last Resort poster
Directed by
Tom Gries
Genre
drama
Country
United States
Length
1 season, 26 episodes
Rating
9.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

This show dramatizes true cases where the legal system may have made a mistake. A group of lawyers and detectives re-examine the evidence to try to free people they believe are wrongly convicted.

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What happens

The Court of Last Resort is an American television dramatized court show which aired October 4, 1957 – April 11, 1958, on NBC. It was co-produced by Erle Stanley Gardner's Paisano Productions, which also brought forth the long-running hit CBS-TV law series Perry Mason. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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