The Man Who Dared (1946 film)

66 minutesCountryUnited StatesLanguageEnglishBudgetless than $100,000^[1]

The Man Who Dared is a 1946 American film noir crime film directed by John Sturges, which serves as the first film he directed.

It tells the story of a reporter who concocts a false case so as to get himself convicted for first degree murder. He does this to prove that a death sentence could be erroneously issued based on circumstantial and flawed evidence and that the death penalty should be abolished.

• Leslie Brooks as Lorna Claibourne
• George Macready as Donald Wayne
• Forrest Tucker as Larry James
• Charles D. Brown as Dist. Atty. Darrell Tyson
• Warren Mills as Felix
• Richard Hale as Reginald Fogg
• Charles Evans as Judge
• Trevor Bardette as Police Sgt. Arthur Landis
• William Newell as Police Sgt. Clay

• Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (1956)
• Bidugade (1973)
• Abhilasha (1983)
• The Life of David Gale (2003)

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