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About
Joe, who owns a gas station along with his brothers and is about to marry Katherine, travels to the small town where she lives to visit her, but is wrongly mistaken for a wanted kidnapper and arrested.
Theatrical
Jun 5, 1936
Box Office
$1.3M
Budget
$604K
Return
2.2x
DVD / Blu-ray
May 10, 2005
Theaters
1
Director
Writers
Producers
Music
Studio
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Quotes
See all →A Man's Struggle with Justice and Loss
Joe Wilson
Your honor, I am Joseph Wilson.
Court Bailiff
Keep your seat!
Judge Daniel Hopkins
Go on.
Quotes sourced from Wikiquote (© Wikiquote contributors), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Modified for formatting/length.
Questioning Witness Identification in Court Proceedings
District Attorney
I wonder if I haven't been calling the defense witnesses by mistake.
[after several witnesses have lied on the stand]
Quotes sourced from Wikiquote (© Wikiquote contributors), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Modified for formatting/length.
Cast
Full credits →S
Sylvia Sidney
Katherine Grant
S
Spencer Tracy
Joe Wilson
W
Walter Abel
District Attorney
B
Bruce Cabot
Kirby Dawson
E
Edward Ellis
Sheriff
W
Walter Brennan
Bugs Meyers
F
Frank Albertson
Charlie Wilson
G
George Walcott
Tom Wilson
A
Arthur Stone
Durkin
M
Morgan Wallace
Fred Garrett
G
George Chandler
Milton Jackson
R
Roger Gray
Stranger
E
Edwin Maxwell
Vickery
H
Howard Hickman
Governor
J
Jonathan Hale
Defense Attorney
L
Leila Bennett
Edna Hooper
E
Esther Dale
Mrs. Whipple
H
Helen Flint
Franchette
E
Erville Alderson
Plumber (uncredited)
E
Ernie Alexander
Peanut Vendor (uncredited)
