They Won't Forget
- IMDb link: 0029658
- IMDb rating: 7.2 (2,149 votes) Search
- Genres: Drama, Mystery, Film-Noir
- Director: Mervyn LeRoy
- Cast: Claude Rains, Gloria Dickson, Edward Norris, Otto Kruger and others
- Release date: 9 Oct 1937
- Release year: 1937
- Runtime: 95 minutes
- Country: United States
- Keywords: lynch mob, reference to the american civil war, prejudice, media frenzy, murder, public opinion, southerner, death sentence, courtroom, circumstantial evidence
Plot
Storyline
A Southern lynch mob and a District Attorney say a Northern teacher killed a teenager.
A southern town is rocked by scandal when teenager Mary Clay is murdered on Confederate Decoration Day. Andrew Griffin, a small-time lawyer with political ambitions, sees the crime as his ticket to the Senate if he can find the right victim to finger for the crime. He sets out to convict Robert Hale, a transplanted northerner who was Mary's teacher at the business school where she was killed. Despite the fact that all the evidence against Hale is circumstantial, Griffin works with a ruthless reporter to create a media frenzy of prejudice and hate against the teacher.
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