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Let Us Live (1939)

Let Us Live (1939)

Drama Crime Thriller

A love more powerful than any law that man could make!

Release Date: 1939, March 29
Directors: John Brahm
Countries: United States of America
Production: Columbia Pictures
Cast: Eric Alden, Ralph Bellamy, Kit Guard, Henry Fonda, Eddy Chandler, Kernan Cripps, Chuck Hamilton, Lee Phelps, Phillip Trent, George Taylor, Ray Walker, Charles Lane

Overview:

When a confused eyewitness identifies New York City cabbie Brick Tennant as a killer, he is sentenced to death for a murder that he wasn't involved in. Though no one is willing to listen to the innocent prisoner's pleas for freedom, Brick's faithful fiancée, Mary, knows that her lover is innocent because she was with him when the crime was committed. As the scheduled execution draws ever nearer, Mary begins to investigate the murder herself.

Keywords:

1930s criminal justice system death penalty cab driver falsely accused criminal gang jury trial fiancé fiancée relationship miscarriage of justice