Genres
Follows a crusading lawyer as he embarks on a campaign to save an African-American man, Paul Crump, from the electric chair. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with The Film Foundation in 2007.
Directed by Robert Drew
Paul Crump
Self
James Lipscomb
Narrator
Robert Drew
Correspondent
Gregory Shuker
John Macdonald
1972•76% Match
1972•7.6
1940
1977
1975
1994•76% Match
1994•7.6
1948•90% Match
1948•9.0
1949•67% Match
1949•6.7
1970•70% Match
1970•7.0
1974•60% Match
1974•6.0
1948•70% Match
1948•7.0
1898•66% Match
1898•6.6
1987•68% Match
1987•6.8
1991•65% Match
1991•6.5
1963•67% Match
1963•6.7
1945•64% Match
1945•6.4
2009•69% Match
2009•6.9
2023•76% Match
2023•7.6
2025•72% Match
2025•7.2
2017•74% Match
2017•7.4
1971•70% Match
1971•7.0
2026•64% Match
2026•6.4
2022•69% Match
2022•6.9
2023•61% Match
2023•6.1
2006•66% Match
2006•6.6
2003•69% Match
2003•6.9
2025•80% Match
2025•8.0
2017•60% Match
2017•6.0
2021•78% Match
2021•7.8
2019•65% Match
2019•6.5
1999•76% Match
1999•7.6